Music and The Brain

Music Taps Into Primal Fear There are certain sounds that humans automatically associate with death because they tap into our evolutionary fear of the screams of other animals (and other human beings). Scientists have dubbed these "discordant noises", any noise that makes you feel very unpleasant falls into this category. We know if we hear other living things making those discordant noises that we have to react because something bad is going to happen. Movie directors know this and make good use of it when deciding on the Score for å film! Healing Powers Listening to music can decrease anxiety, speed healing, increase optimism and decreáse pain. 6. Music Forces The Brain to Pay Attention A Stanford research team showed that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory. Incredible Memory for Sounds Babies Know Music & The Brain 5 Happy From Sad, Alzheimer's patients can recall and sing songs long after they've stopped recognising names and faces, There is growing evidence that listening to music can help stimulate seemingly lost memories and even help restore some cognitive function. Songs Babies as young as 5 months can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomy tunes. Sound is a nutrient for the nervous system. Love your ears. they are much more important than you ever realized. Prof. Dr. Alfred Tomati Sources Creativity Boost http://www.naturalnews.com/039589_music_brain_hemispheres.html http://www.emedexpert.com/tips/music.shtml http://www.livescience.com/7581-babies-happy-sad-songs.html http://med.stanford.edu/news http://www.cracked.com/artiereleases the uly/musieave-musio-can-mess-with- human-brain.html Music boosts creative energies through the production of alpha and theta waves. Large influxes of alpha waves induce states of enhanced creativity while theta waves are associated with dreaming, learning and relaxing. The Mozart Effect The key for boosting creative energies is to listen to the type of music you enjoy the most. If you want more inspiration in language and mathematics it would make sense to listen to music with singing, while music without words stimulates more artistic and visual senses. It's been thought that listening to classical music, particularly Mozart, enhances performance on coğnitive tests. However, recent findings show that listening to any music thắt is personally enjoyable has positive effects on cognition. Listening to music can make you learn better and has the power to enhance some kinds of highér brain function, such as reading and literacy skills, spatial-temporal reasoning, emotional intelligence and mathematical abilities - even children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder benefit in mathematics tests from listening to music beforehand. Suundlracks lor business @muzomusic www.facebook.com/muzouk