Fun facts about ASMR

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Did you know? The viral trend of 'ASMR' videos, where creators whisper or tap objects, was named by a person named Jennifer Allen in 2010. She coined the term 'Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response' while trying to create a community for people who experienced the tingle, inventing the name specifically to sound scientific and clinical rather than odd.

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3 facts about ASMR

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    Brain scans have shown that people who experience ASMR have different connectivity patterns between the regions of the brain that process sensory information and those linked to social and emotional processing.
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    Some researchers believe that the relaxing tingle people feel from ASMR might be an evolutionary leftover from when primates would groom each other to build social bonds and stay safe.
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