Huron explored music and how it can evoke emotions in humans. Particularly, he looked at how goosebumps can be caused from listening to music. First, he explored how chills can be evoked. Chills can last from one second to ten seconds and longer forms involve goosebumps. These sensations can be pleasant or unpleasant and music isn’t the only thing that can cause chills. These sensations occur naturally and evolved as a part of aggression and defense. Nature can also cause chills. Chills are more likely to occur if you’re in a cold environment. As far as music is concerned, chills are often pleasurable, uncommon, reliable, memorable, and sought-out. However, there are major individual differences. These sensations are more likely to occur
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The first is loud sound which causes a startled response, a defense reflex, and generates an increase in physiological arousal. The second factor is the volume of the music, which can increase the physiological arousal. Low pitch is also a factor because it’s associated with aggression and emotional arousal. Infrasound are the frequencies that are below audibility but allows a person to still feel them. The presence of infrasound leads to an increase in reported emotionality and “shivers down the spine”. Another acoustic attribute that Huron mentions is “scream”. He says that this coincides with a peak point in the human sensitivity in hearing threshold. The fifth factor is termed “squillo”. Squillo is the method that opera singers used to produce their sound without amplifications. There are acoustic similarities between screaming and operatic singing and for some people, these similarities may be too close. Another attribute is acoustic proximity and approach. Due to evolution, distant stimuli provokes anxiety while proximal stimuli provokes panic. Lastly, there’s a surprise factor. According to Huron, surprise represents a biological failure and predicting stimuli is an important brain function. The common theme in all of the acoustic factors is that they all evoke fear. There’s also an emotional contrast and this contrast amplifies a persons
The first is loud sound which causes a startled response, a defense reflex, and generates an increase in physiological arousal. The second factor is the volume of the music, which can increase the physiological arousal. Low pitch is also a factor because it’s associated with aggression and emotional arousal. Infrasound are the frequencies that are below audibility but allows a person to still feel them. The presence of infrasound leads to an increase in reported emotionality and “shivers down the spine”. Another acoustic attribute that Huron mentions is “scream”. He says that this coincides with a peak point in the human sensitivity in hearing threshold. The fifth factor is termed “squillo”. Squillo is the method that opera singers used to produce their sound without amplifications. There are acoustic similarities between screaming and operatic singing and for some people, these similarities may be too close. Another attribute is acoustic proximity and approach. Due to evolution, distant stimuli provokes anxiety while proximal stimuli provokes panic. Lastly, there’s a surprise factor. According to Huron, surprise represents a biological failure and predicting stimuli is an important brain function. The common theme in all of the acoustic factors is that they all evoke fear. There’s also an emotional contrast and this contrast amplifies a persons