Neural correlates and behavioral outcomes of aesthetic chills and their prosthetic augmentation
September 13, 2026 Félix Schoeller, Leonardo Christov-Moore, Ninette Simonian et al. preprint
Aesthetic chills, psychogenic shivers elicited by emotionally charged stimuli such as music, offer a neurophysiological marker bridging subjective experience and measurable physiology. Although neuroimaging has localized chills to reward and interoceptive circuits and behavioral work has linked them to prosocial outcomes, their electrophysiological signature and its relationship to...