title: How does music arouse "chills"? Investigating strong emotions, combining psychological, physiological, and psychoacoustical methods.
abstract: Music can arouse ecstatic "chill" experiences defined as "goose pimples" and as "shivers down the spine." We recorded chills both via subjects' self-reports and physiological reactions, finding that they do not occur in a reflex-like manner, but as a result of attentive, experienced, and conscious musical enjoyment.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hohenzollernstrasse 47, 30161 Hannover, Germany. oliver_grewe@gmx.de
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Grewe
authors.forename: Frederik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nagel
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kopiez
authors.forename: Eckart
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altenmüller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001307:Auditory Perception; D002648:Child; D023341:Chills; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*