Scientists Answer Why We Get Chills During Some Songs

Have you ever felt that familiar feeling of pins-and-needles inside you while listening to one of your favorite songs? Well, if you say no, then I am sure you are lying. We all get that “chill” when we listen to something very powerful or something that is really close to our hearts. So now, a team scientist did an experiment to find out why we experience that feeling during certain songs.

So, the team, in order to answer their questions, performed a scientific study with 18 willing participants. They asked these participants to listen to songs which they described as chill-producing. They then asked them to indicate the parts of the song where they feel the “chill”.

So, according to the EEG scans of the participants, the chill-giving songs were lighting up three essential areas of the brain. These include brain-areas that are responsible for emotional processing, movement, and sound processing.