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How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman

Big Brains

CHAPTER

The Effects of Sympathy on Our Taste in Music

There's all these ideas around, you know, people who are more empathetic tend to like sad music a little better. So, picking up on tonal patterns from an early age is how we develop our own taste in music. As it turns out, what you perceive as happy or sad music might have to do with where you come from.

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