Looking at puppies and kittens can temporarily make us more careful, focus our attention, and enhance fine-motor dexterity. Cute things make us delicate.
We easily groove to bassy music because we process time better with low frequency sounds.
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Groovy Bass
Humans perceive pain and heat via very similar sensory mechanisms. Sometimes we cannot differentiate between the two. The TRPV1 receptors on the skin do both.
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Heat hurts
The feeling of falling down while sleeping is called a “hypnic jerk”. It occurs because an active brain during sleep interprets resting muscles as "falling".
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Hypnic Jerks
We are often more creative while solving other people’s problems than our own because the psychological distance makes us think abstractly.
About 5% people derive no pleasure from music and some can’t even comprehend it. There auditory cortex doesn't associate with reward centers in the brain.
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Musical anhedonia
Subtitles improve our ability to listen even though they “feel” like a distraction. Sounds and words amplify each other when they match.