The Neuroscience of Music and Consciousness

Music engages a distributed set of systems rather than one music centre: auditory cortex for sound features, motor regions for rhythm, reward circuitry for pleasure and chills, and memory systems for association. Research linking music specifically to altered states of consciousness is early-stage and should be read cautiously.

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