Emailists,
Your observations are exactly why I posted this here. I do believe that "audiophiles" have trained their brains to use even more areas to derive pleasure from music than the average person.
This study talks about how many different areas of the brain are engaged in listening and enjoying music, not just a certain part.
We often talk of joy experienced when listening. The changes we make to ours systems where music sounds differently must have a different affect on certain parts of our brains. It's got to stimulate them.
We hear that we should keep our brains stimulated to stave off Alzheimer's and other later life dementia. So the question is: Do you think that simply listening to music is considered that type of stimulation?
If you answer is yes, could be, then we all have yet ANOTHER GOOD REASON to keep doing what we're doing :-)
Angela
Your observations are exactly why I posted this here. I do believe that "audiophiles" have trained their brains to use even more areas to derive pleasure from music than the average person.
This study talks about how many different areas of the brain are engaged in listening and enjoying music, not just a certain part.
We often talk of joy experienced when listening. The changes we make to ours systems where music sounds differently must have a different affect on certain parts of our brains. It's got to stimulate them.
We hear that we should keep our brains stimulated to stave off Alzheimer's and other later life dementia. So the question is: Do you think that simply listening to music is considered that type of stimulation?
If you answer is yes, could be, then we all have yet ANOTHER GOOD REASON to keep doing what we're doing :-)
Angela