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How Music Soothes Us

The Science of Happiness

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The Effects of Music on Infants

When an infant heard a lullaby, they relaxed to it. Their harbry went down, their electrogermal activity went down and their pupils constricted. We also found that age didn't matter for infants. There really just is something about certain patterns of sounds that, no matter what your experience was or wasn't, that the human brain is just kind of attuned to perceiving as calming.

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