Now, a s a freelance journalist who writes about neuroscience, Virgnia once had doubts of her future such as where she'd study and what she would do, with these questions in mind, depressed she went out for a drive and turned on the radio which changed her life. He heard the charging tempo and jaunty teasing violin of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.5, "“This piece of music came on, and something just happened,” Salimpoor recalls. “I just felt this rush of emotion come through me. It was so intense.” She pulled over to the side of the street so she could concentrate on the song and the pleasure it gave her. when the song was over, Salimpoor’s mind raced with questions. “I was thinking, wow, what just happened? A few minutes ago I was so depressed, and now I’m euphoric,” she says. “I decided that I had to figure out how this happened — that that’s what I’m going to do with the rest of my life.” Graduating at McGill University Virginia made experiments and studies on why unlike sex and gambling with no intrinsic value music gave such a rewarding pleasure. there isn't a exact answer why, but through a tomography neuroscientists could tell that 15 minutes after a participant listened to their favorite song, their brain flooded with dopamine which is active during sex and eating.She will now continue to persue her answer.
Music being something culturally, and individually enjoyed bring out the best or the worse of people, it has the power to give a person pleasure. In this article, the author does a fine job portraying it. The author uses her own experience to bring out the reasone why she decided to pursue on finding such aswers to her question, she is detailed in what she does and passionate about it. her vocabulary is well used, she never gets out of track answering questions that many people where so curious about,
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