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Singing people feel the same as birds

01.01.2013

A bird listening to the singing of another bird experiences the same emotions as a person listening to music, scientists concluded as a result of a study published in Neuroscience.

"We found that humans listening to pleasant music and female birds listening to a male's song during the nesting season activated the same neural systems," says Sara Erk of Emory University. In males, hearing the song of another male, the reaction was different - the amygdala was activated, as happens in people who hear dissonant, unpleasant sounds.

Erk analyzed the results of studies that visualized the results of the nervous activity of a person listening to music. In addition, she reviewed bird brain maps from Money's lab, which uses songbirds as a model for studying neural structures in complex behavior. Some of the birds in the study were treated with hormones to encourage reproduction, while others were hormonally lowered. Outside of the breeding season, birds of both sexes used song to establish and maintain position in the flock. During the breeding season, the function of singing was different - males sang to attract females, as well as scare away other males.

The increase in male testosterone in response to someone else's singing indicated amygdala activity that correlates with the average person's response to bad music. The females, if their hormonal levels were high, clearly enjoyed the music. Those who did not enter the breeding season did not react in any way. Both of these phenomena are connected not only directly with a positive reaction to the "reward", but also with the mechanisms that regulate emotions. Both birdsong and music, according to Earl, activate ancient evolutionary mechanisms that are necessary for the reproduction and survival of the species.

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