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Your dinner playlist could influence how enjoyable a meal feels, even if it can't magically fix a bland dish.

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Ever notice how a good meal somehow tastes even better with the right song playing? Turns out that’s not just in your head, or rather, it actually is. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen found that your brain responds more strongly to taste when music plays alongside it, compared to tasting something in silence. The study, published in Nature , offers the first brain imaging proof of something scientists call sonic seasoning.

How can music change the way your brain tastes food?

The study scanned 28 participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see how their brains reacted to music and taste. For the experiment, researchers tested three setups: only music, only taste, and both experienced together.…