Physiological activation of music listeners is synchronized

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99 people visiting a series of public concerts agreed to participate in data collection: their heart beat, skin conductance and breathing was non-invasively recorded. They gave short self-reports how they liked the pieces presented (chamber music of Beethoven, Brahms and Brett Dean). In the majority of physiological measure, we found that listeners' physiological responses were synchronized. We believe this is a novel measure of embodied aesthetic immersion in the music. This assumption was supported by associations between synchrony and self-reported experiences.

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