{"id":12996,"date":"2014-02-12T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=12996"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:04:55","slug":"why-we-like-music-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/why-we-like-music-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we like music at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening to the driving beat of a Daft Punk song or the opening chords of a mellow Jack Johnson track, both have an effect on your brain that is not seen in any other animal.<\/p>\n<p>When you listen to music, a part of your brain called the nucleus accumbens activates. This triggers\u00c2\u00a0the release of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpleasure chemical\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dopamine, that lives in a group of neurons in your brain called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA).<\/p>\n<p>This pathway in the brain is called the Reward System and Dopamine is strongly associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>Dopamine is the same chemical that gets released when you eat your favorite food or\u00c2\u00a0when you get a new follower on Twitter, causing you to want more, more, more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/lifehacks\/2014\/02\/10\/listen-work-music-brain\/'>What Music Does to Your Brain While You Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening to the driving beat of a Daft Punk song or the opening chords of a mellow Jack Johnson track, both have an effect on your brain that is not seen in any other animal. When you listen to music, a part of your brain called the nucleus accumbens activates. This triggers\u00c2\u00a0the release &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/why-we-like-music-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why we like music at work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-music","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3nC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12999,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions\/12999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}