摘要：雅思中國網雅思頻道跟大家分享的雅思閱讀素材叫“Why music makes you happy” 為什么音樂會讓人開心呢？本文為你揭曉！聽說跟一種叫多巴胺的物質有關呢！

If most of their dopamine receptors were free, on the other hand, the radioactive substance would bind to them.

從另一方面來說，如果大多數的巴多胺感受器處于空閑，那么放射性物質將會依附其上。

The technique showed, definitively for the first time, that people's brains released large amounts of dopamine when they listened to music that gave them chills, the researchers reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Whenthe same people listened to less moving music the next day, their dopamine receptors remained wide open.

研究人員《自然神經科學》中發文稱，這項技術首次表明，當人們聽到那些帶給他們快感的音樂時，大腦會分泌大量的多巴胺。當第二天同樣的人聽沒那么觸動的音樂，他們的多巴胺感受器就會保持較大的開放幅度。

Once the researchers knew for sure that dopamine was behind the pleasure of music,they put participants in an fMRI machine and played the moving music for them again. In this part of the experiment.the scanners showed that the brain pumped out(大量涌出)dopamine both during the phase of musical anticipation and at the moment when chills hit in full force. The two surges happened in differentareas of the brain.

當研究人員確認多巴胺與音樂快感的關聯后，他們將參加者放入fMRI機器，并再次播放那些感動過他們的音樂。這個實驗中，掃描儀顯示，在音樂期待階段以及振顫感覺最強烈的瞬間，大腦大量分泌巴多胺。這兩次分泌急升發生在大腦的不同區域。

"It is amazing that we can release dopamine in anticipation of something abstract, complex and not concrete," Salimpoor said. "Thisis the first study to show that dopamine can be released in response to an aesthetic(審美的;藝術的) stimulus."

“太神奇了，我們在期待一些抽象、復雜的事物時會分泌多巴胺，” Salimpoor說?！氨砻髟谑艿綄徝赖拇碳r，大腦會分泌多巴胺，這還是首項研究?！?/p>

The findings suggest that, like sex and drugs, music may be mildly addictive(使人上癮的), said David Huron, a music cognition researcher at Ohio State University, Columbus.

哥倫布市的俄亥俄州立大學音樂認知研究人員David Huron說，研究結果顯示，與性和毒品一樣，音樂也會讓人有一點點上癮。

Dopamine is an adaptive reward-inducing molecule that makes animal swant to look for food before they're hungry. It's what makes it impossible forsome people to pass by the neighborhood bakery without going in to buy a tart.And it provides a rush(服用毒品后的強烈快感) for hero in addicts when they see blood enter the needle -- before the drug even gets into their veins.

多巴胺是一種具有誘導力的適應型分子，它使得動物在饑餓前會去覓食。它也使一些人在路過附近面包店時，總忍不住想進去買個蛋撻。同時，它還使得癮君子在看到血液流進針管時產生強烈快感——而那時毒品甚至都還沒進入他們的靜脈。)

In its groundbreaking(開創性的) combination of techniques,Huron said, the study also offers a new way to study the relationship between dopamine and feelings of motivation, reward and pleasure. Brain scanners are notoriously(臭名昭著地)expensive for scientists and claustrophobic(幽閉恐懼癥) for participants, with no room for people to do things like eat in them.

對于所采用的開創性技術組合，Huron認為，這項研究還為探討多巴胺與沖動、獎勵、愉悅的關系提供了新的方法。眾所周知，腦部掃描儀對科學家們來說過于昂貴，會給實驗者帶來幽閉恐懼，同時沒有空間讓人做任何事情，比如吃飯。

Music, on the other hand, can be pumped right in(暢通無阻地涌入) to the machine, and scientists can then look at pleasure responses on a note-by-note basis.

另一方面，音樂卻可以暢通無阻地涌入儀器，然后科學家便能輕松地觀察每個音符產生的愉悅反應。

"Music is going to be a useful tool in trying to explain all sorts of aspects of pleasure, addiction and maladaptive behaviors," Huron said."It's a technical tour de force what they've done. I just think it's areally wonderful piece of work."

“音樂將成為一個有用的工具來解釋愉悅、上癮及適應不良行為的各個方面，”Huron說道?！斑@是一個技術杰作。我認為它真的很棒?！?/p>

本文觀點選自“唐老雅”