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Why Does Music Make Us Feel?

By The Daily Dish
Sep 20 2009, 12:28 PM ET

Mark Changizi suggests one theory:

Human movement has been conjectured to underlie music as far back as the Greeks. As a hypothesis this has the advantage that we have auditory systems capable of making sense of the sounds of people moving in our midst – an angry stomper approaching, a delicate lilter passing, and so on. Some of these movements trigger positive emotions – they conjure up images of pleasant activities – while others might be automatically associated with fear or anxiety.



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