Research done at Stanford University confirms not only this predominance at a physical and subconscious level, but also in an area that is perhaps the most uniquely human of all; that is in the area of transcendent experiences - what the researchers term "thrills." They found that the most powerful stimulus for evoking thrill-like sensations in their subjects was music. {19}
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