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Music seems to be a social glue. Think of how love songs enhance our romantic feelings, how marching bands intensify our affinity for the home team, or how huge rock concerts make us feel one with a crowd of thousands. Music has some special power to increase our sense of connection and help us affiliate with others. But why? What’s happening in our brains that makes an isolated set of sounds resonate in these ways? A new neuroscience study aimed to find out.    

  Read full article at Greater Good Magazine:

• https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/where_music_and_empathy_converge_in_the_brain

Link to the study at Frontieres:

• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00066/full