The corollary is that dissonant noise like yard machines is upsetting, and bad for your health.
Why Music Is Good For The Brain
Why Music Is Good For The Brain
"Can music really affect your well-being, learning, cognitive function, quality of life, and even happiness? A recent survey on music and brain health conducted by AARP revealed some interesting findings about the impact of music on cognitive and emotional well-being."
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@ghdprentice Is nothing sacred? Never joined AARP and still rely on AAA for discounts! |
This article about the music and the brain tell another story ... All is not "bunk" ... The studies of the relation between the brain and music is not old matter... Neuroimaging is a new fields... This article explain in few experiments why it is not bunk...
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jbbs_2020012115154201.pdf This book tell also another story and effectively the brain is influenced as much by music that music perception is influenced by the brain : https://www.amazon.ca/Oxford-Handbook-Music-Brain/dp/0198804121
This book is free to consult : https://hugoribeiro.com.br/biblioteca-digital/Peretez_Zatorre-Neuroscience_of_Music.pdf
The publicity about this book with one of the writer a neurologist reveal the opposite of "bunk" :
I will order the book ...
Music change consciousness state and level or can do so, as meditation do, with measurable effects on the brain... We can read how music affect the brain with neuroimaging etc and in reverse reading how the brain parts contributes to the interpretation and understanding of music ...
Anyway one of the greatest scientist in the studies of artificial brain think the human brain is "music" ...In a litteral way... Anirban Bandyopadhyay and his book which is one of the best i read: Nanobrain ...
As the indian scientist i just use, i believe in the unity of mind/body because the mind body is part of the universe, not an external part as in old materialism and nominalism but as an internal part , then a wholeness as in Vedic litterature and as in modern research on artificial brain done by Anirban ...
Then we cannot separate the mind from the brain nor reduce the mind to the mere brain, no more than we can reduce the music to a written partition or even reduce it to one orchestral interpretation...
I dont doubt that music is a powerful therapy way underestimated because big pharma cannot make a profit with it and then will not pay to know about it... I dont doubt that music can change not only the superficial moods of a person but in some case, some sound and some speech can rewire the brain... Try the OM sound or Christ name, for a year and go under neuroimaging after it ... take a baby and use the mother voices or the voice of an alien woman and measure the therapeutic effect of the two on the baby ... It is evident that sound as speech or music impact the material brain and the soul also and the health... |
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