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  2. Goose bumps - Wikipedia

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    Goose bumps are accompanied by a specific physiological response pattern that is thought to indicate the emotional state of being moved. [15] In humans, goose bumps occur everywhere on the body, including the legs, neck, and other areas of the skin that have hair. In some people, they even occur in the face or on the head.

  3. Arrector pili muscle - Wikipedia

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    Each arrector pili is composed of a bundle of smooth muscle fibres which attach to several follicles (a follicular unit). [4] Each is innervated by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. [4]

  4. Why do we get goosebumps? Experts explain - AOL

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  5. Thermal neutral zone - Wikipedia

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    Vasomotor responses allow control of the flow of blood between the periphery and the core to control heat loss from the surface of the body. Lastly, the organism can show insulation adjustments; a common example being "goosebumps" in humans where hair follicles are raised by pilomotor muscles, also shown in animals' pelage and plumage. [4]

  6. Why Do We Get Goosebumps? - AOL

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    When you’re cold, watching a scary movie or maybe when your favorite song plays at a concert, you might get little bumps all over your skin. Horripilation is the technical term for goosebumps ...

  7. Experts Explain the Wild Reason We Get Goosebumps - AOL

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  8. Frisson - Wikipedia

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    Piloerection (goose bumps), the physical part of frisson. Frisson (UK: / ˈ f r iː s ɒ n / FREE-son, US: / f r iː ˈ s oʊ n / free-SOHN [1] [2] French:; French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals [3]) that often induces a pleasurable or ...

  9. Human thermoregulation - Wikipedia

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    Simplified control circuit of human thermoregulation. [8]The core temperature of a human is regulated and stabilized primarily by the hypothalamus, a region of the brain linking the endocrine system to the nervous system, [9] and more specifically by the anterior hypothalamic nucleus and the adjacent preoptic area regions of the hypothalamus.