Testosterone may make you a metal head

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3162, 2018, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • If you're partial to a good power ballad, testosterone may be influencing your music tastes. We know that personality seems to be linked to music genre preferences, but Hirokazu Doi of Nagasaki University, Japan, was keen to find out if a person's hormones shape their tastes too. Testosterone, for example, has been linked to aspects of personality such as extraversion and also affects brain regions involved in experiences we find rewarding, so could it play a role in music taste? To find out Doi's team recruited 37 male and 39 female volunteers--most of whom were students--and played them excerpts from 25 little-known pieces of music.