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  Music never failed to amuse This curious someone from Argentina He trained as an organist While also doing psychology!!! Often he would wonder, Is the brain hard wired for music? Why does this music give me chills? Was something he always pondered. Let's start by messing with the pitch, And where all the brain fires Use the missing fundamental phenomenon And see the right auditory cortex fire! Oh, unless it is injured or you have a lesion in there, Then even with two separate pitches, the differences will be rare! And when you imagine music it still is active, Your inner voice is never unheard, 'cause the auditory cortex is proactive! And come what may, always remember, A musician's auditory cortex has more gray matter. Then he asked what happens when musicians get creative? Found parieto frontal cortex and auditory cortex being extremely interactive! But why does music feel so good, why does one get chills? Musician or not a musician, why is it that it instills? Skin con