Why Does Music Have such an Emotional Effect on Humans?

Written by limarc | Published 2020/11/12
Tech Story Tags: slogging | music-technology | music | music-industry | streaming-music | emotions | slack | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR Hacker Noon's VP of Growth by day, VR Gamer and Anime Binger by night. Early humans used sounds we would call musical to signal to each other, when hunting or in battle, then eventually, in everyday life. Music was first used as a signaling method early on which sort of hardwired our brains, maybe even our genetic code, such that certain sounds make us feel certain ways. Some animals have been shown to respond to music as well, as well as some animals that responded to music.via the TL;DR App

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Written by limarc | Director of Content @ISNation & HackerNoon's Editorial Ambassador by day, VR Gamer and Anime Binger by night.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/11/12