{"id":6525,"date":"2019-01-21T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2019-01-28T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:27:48","slug":"dopamine-directly-affects-how-much-we-enjoy-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/dopamine-directly-affects-how-much-we-enjoy-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Dopamine directly affects how much we enjoy music <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1811878116\" target=\"_blank\">PNAS<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Published January 21<\/strong><br \/>\nDopamine directly increases our enjoyment of listening, singing, or playing to music, which confer no known survival advantage. This double blind within-subject study directly manipulated healthy participants\u2019 dopamine levels while they listened to music. The results indicate how an individual\u2019s ability to absorb dopamine may play different, unforeseen roles in the brain\u2019s reward response in emotional processing, particularly in abstract cognitive activities like listening to or participating in music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Robert Zatorre, McGill University &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:robert.zatorre@mcgill.ca\" target=\"_blank\">robert.zatorre@mcgill.ca<\/a>; and others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNAS Published January 21 Dopamine directly increases our enjoyment of listening, singing, or playing to music, which confer no known survival advantage. This double blind within-subject study directly manipulated healthy participants\u2019 dopamine levels while they listened to music. The results indicate how an individual\u2019s ability to absorb dopamine may play different, unforeseen roles in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman-girl-technology-music.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Hf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}