Genes influence music enjoyment

Frankfurt: Why do some people enjoy music more than others? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered that this is partly due to genetic reasons. To find out, researchers in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden used a research design that compared the similarity between identical twins or […

Researchers from the Nijmegen and Frankfurt have investigated how genetic and environmental factors influence our enjoyment of music, using data from twins.Why do some people enjoy music more than others?In part, it is innate how scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main have found out.To find out, the team used a research design that c…