If you see a horror scene without a creepy music it will not scare you as much as the scene with creepy music does. Also in YouTube you can find some relaxing videos where they play a tune at certain frequency and it actually calms down people. Another example, Hearing a national anthem often stirs feelings of pride, unity, and patriotism. How does this work? How does our brain know what hormones to release to a particular sound?
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Sound is processed in our brains in the same place we process emotions. Some emotions become attached to certain frequencies so that when they’re played back to us it triggers that emotion.
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