Music with Kirsten Zemke: ASMR sounds

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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR is a perception phenomenon that generates a bioelectric current through auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory or perceptive stimuli. When it passes through the nerves it can produce a pleasant feeling, or a trancelike feeling of relaxation and euphoria. Kirsten plays some songs that contain some ASMR sounds, including one from Benee that was specially made in conjunction with mental health and neuroscientists to help reduce anxious feelings.

Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.