{"id":10195,"date":"2015-03-31T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T22:46:45","slug":"what-music-inspires-authors-the-series-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-authors-the-series-index\/","title":{"rendered":"What Music Inspires Authors \u2013 The Series Index!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zena<\/a>Listening to a sequence of sounds has no obvious survival value for humans. Yet according to a 2001 study by neuroscientists at the University of Montrea<\/a>l, music has the same effect on our brains as sex and good food. Why?<\/p>\n

It could be because with music we get whatever emotion we seek through it \u2013 be that happiness, sadness, anger or peace \u2013 and having our expectations met is reassuring. It could be that music connects cultures, or because it brings personal memories and experiences to mind, or because it simply generates some necessary adrenal responses.<\/p>\n

The result is of course the same no matter what the reason \u2013 humans love music! It’s something instinctive, something we’re born to enjoy, as this boy happily<\/em> shows:<\/p>\n