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."
I was researching a paper on music and mental health/state in the Fall of 1973 and the only reference material I could find in a sizable Uni library was the following (depicted) book - since with @ least one revision. Because of this I switched the topic to why heroin (not methadone) should be legalized and governmentally controlled in the United States.
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Why We Remember Music and Forget Everything Else "In a 2010 study published in Music Perception, Halpern and colleagues had musicians listen to the first minute of familiar classical pieces and record their judgments of the emotions they were hearing in the music through their valence and arousal. Then, the participants did the experiment again while just imagining the first minute of these songs playing in their minds. “The overlap in their profiles was astonishing, which means that they were doing this complicated piece in real time and extracting the same emotions,” Halpern says. The musicians were able to map the emotions expressed in the music even when it was playing in their heads and imagine the music so vividly that their scores were almost identical. This shows that we can quite accurately recreate some aspects of music in our minds. “Imagining music is actually a very similar experience to perceiving music,” Jakubowski says. “There [are] very strong parallels in terms of the brain activation you see when you imagine music versus when you perceive music.” |
Great article....thanks... We are made of "music" , the content of consciousness is information as waves in mathematics... We are waves... I personaly believe as if i always " had know" it that there exist a universal memory where all beings are ONE, because all others memories combine and interact without confusion ... I trust only mathematics ... And mystics about it ... Philosophers are way less trusty here ... 😊 Save philosophers enlightened by mathematics and mystical experiences and musical one ...( as Bach ) I doubt everything else but not this fact ... Then even in alzheimer with the apparent lost of the ego personality by lost of all filters making it possible in the brain , the basic memory of emotions written in music form cannot disapear, it override the brain filters in normal life who make the separated ego possible... Music and numbers are not less real than a table ...I pity those who dont experience it ... |
