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| A study from the University of Gothenburg found that choir members' hearts synchronized while singing in unison. Image: Shutterstock |
Were you ever in choir? I was, and it’s an experience I’ll
always hold near and dear to my soul. The experience of singing in harmony and
unison with so many other people is incredibly powerful, and completely
impossible to fully explain.
A recent NPR article talked about an interesting finding out of the
University of Gothenburg in Sweden: when choirs sing as one, their hearts beat
as one as well. The researchers connected pulse monitors to high school choir
members’ ears and found that, though the heart rates started out jumbled, they
quickly synchronized and slowed.
