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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Singing Is a Social Activity in the Brain

It's possible to trigger this in dorpin response in the brain by a number of other activities. And these activities come to be central to ar a social talket, if you like. These are things like laughter, a singing and dancing, singing in a wordless sense - just o humming round the camp fire. Once language evolved, the rituals of religion, a feastinga eating and drinking socially together. And lastly, story telling, and particulary telling, emotional stories. All of these trigger the endorfin system in the brain. And they trigger this increased sense of bondingnd,. always come back to singing on this, because singing seems to be absolutely instantaneous.

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