Have you ever been jamming out to a phenomenal song and felt shivers run throughout your body that reach all the way up to the top of your head, extending into even your fingertips? If the answer is ...

Experiencing goosebumps from music, known as frisson, is a common yet profound physiological response. This occurs when specific musical moments, often involving surprise and emotional resonance, ...

Chills, thrills, even skin orgasms — these are some of the words people use to describe a sensation experts call “frisson” (pronounced free-SAWN), from the French word for “shiver.” In English, ...

The 2016 study, published in the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Journal, provided “the first evidence for a neural basis of individual differences in sensory access to the reward system,” ...

Experiencing goosebumps while listening to music — otherwise known as "frisson" — results from a connection between auditory input and our brain's emotional processing center. It’s a reaction to the ...