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The study used only instrumental music, showing that voices aren't necessary to produce the dopamine response, Salimpoor said. It will take further work to study how voices might contribute to the pleasure effect, she said.
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I think this is an apropos assessment - even in music with vocals, it's the climaxes in the
music, not so much the verbage, that can give me chills or a thrill. I still get goosebumps when I hear Mozart's Clarinet Concerto or Holst's Mars. But I can get the same feeling from Muse, or Tool, etc...
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