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How Does Music Arouse “Chills”?
Author(s) -
GREWE OLIVER,
NAGEL FREDERIK,
KOPIEZ REINHARD,
ALTENMÜLLER ECKART
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1360.041
Subject(s) - chills , psychology , musical , communication , medicine , art , literature , surgery
A bstract : Music can arouse ecstatic “chill” experiences defined as “goose pimples” and as “shivers down the spine.” We recorded chills both via subjects' self‐reports and physiological reactions, finding that they do not occur in a reflex‐like manner, but as a result of attentive, experienced, and conscious musical enjoyment.