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“I was talking with my colleagues at a conference 10 years ago and I just casually said that everyone loves music,” recalls Josep Marco Pallarés, a neuroscientist at the University of Barcelona. But ...

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yeah I don't dislike music, and in fact enjoy some music quite a bit (mostly film scores, tbh), but I can sit in a room with no music playing while I work for hours and it won't occur to me to put ...