summary: New research suggests that aesthetic chills, or goosebumps, when stimulated by music, movies, speeches, etc., may increase emotional intensity and positive value. The results of this study may help us understand the role of embodied experience in perception and decision-making and have implications for the treatment of dopamine-related disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and depression.
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A new study reveals that aesthetic chills and goosebumps from listening to music and watching movies can have a significant impact on a person’s emotional state.
For this study, researchers investigated the emotional impact of aesthetic chills and their effects on subject perception and appraisal of stimuli.
The study included over 600 subjects. Participants were exposed to a variety of movies, songs, and speeches from ChillsDB, an open-source repository of aesthetic chill-inducing stimuli. Participants who reported experiencing goosebumps, or “chills,” reported more positive valence and increased arousal compared to those who did not experience aesthetic chills.
This finding suggests that experiencing aesthetic chills plays a role in influencing a person’s perception and emotional appraisal of stimuli. This also supports theoretical models that emphasize the importance of interoceptive signals in decision-making and perception.
The researchers also evaluated the role dopamine plays in saliency signaling and precise encoding. This is associated with improved emotion recognition. The results of this study suggest that chill phenomena in diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and depression need to be further investigated. They hope that this will reveal how bodily signals shape the perception of rewarding stimuli and context.
The neural correlates of aesthetic chills resemble patterns of activity associated with euphoria in psychopharmacological studies. Ventral tegmental area neurons project to the hippocampus while experiencing euphoria, correlating with deactivation of the amygdala, orbit, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
The researchers hope the study’s findings will lead to a better understanding of the emotional and physiological mechanisms behind aesthetic chills and their potential uses in clinical settings. By further investigating the effects of stimuli that do, the new research may help identify and develop treatments for people with dopaminergic disorders.
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“Aesthetic chills cause emotional drifts in valence and arousalby Patti Mace et al. The forefront of neuroscience
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Aesthetic chills cause emotional drifts in valence and arousal
Aesthetic chills are embodied peak emotional experiences evoked by stimuli such as music, movies, and speech and characterized by dopaminergic release.
The emotional consequences of chills in terms of valence and arousal are still debated, and existing empirical data are conflicting. We tested the effect on emotional ratings of more than one participant.
We found that participants experiencing chills reported significantly more positive valences and greater arousal during the experience compared to participants not experiencing chills. This suggests that embodied experiences of chills may affect contextual perception and emotional appraisals in support of theoretical models that emphasize the role of interoceptive signals such as chills in perceptual and decision-making processes. suggests that there is
We also found an interesting pattern in the participants’ valence ratings. This was initially unevenly distributed but tended to converge towards a similar mean after the experiment.
We discuss the importance of these results in the diagnosis and treatment of dopaminergic disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and depression.
