Music And Brain
Part 2 : Explain how your current uses of music might impact your cognitive function. Draw on the research literature from both the “music and the brain” and “music in schools” lectures to support your ideas.
Introduction
Currently, I am largely involved in composing music for interactive media. To be able to produce professional music, I am constantly improving my music competency skills through music training. Recent studies have shown that music training enhances higher level cognition such as verbal memory (Ho, Cheung, & Chan, 2003), IQ (Schellenberg, E. G. 2004), spatial-temporal(Lois Hetland, 2000) and mathematical reasoning(Cheek & Smith, 1999). Brain Activation
As I am extremely passionate about music, I am consistently engaged in …show more content…
We would gather in class together to practise and improve our music ability. Immersing in music training in school has the potential to increase my IQ (Schellenberg 2004), mathematical reasoning (Cheek & Smith, 1999) and verbal intelligence (Ho, Cheung, & Chan, 2003). Another key area of gaining music competency is being able to improvise a tasteful melody over a chord sequence. Improvising requires high level of cognition and activates different areas of the brain as compared to performing a written score. Charles J. Limb, M.D (2008) found that during improvisation, the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain grew in activation. This area of the brain is connected to originality, self-expression and individualism. They further discovered that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex which is connected to practical actions and restrain, decreased in …show more content…
As an aspiring composer, I will be in perpetual connection with music for the following years and will continue to practice good uses of music. The current research studies on music and the brain has certainly displayed a lot of positive potential for the cognitive process of the brain. However, there are still many affecting factors that has to be considered to produce more accurate results. For example, the duration of music training, age when music training started and type of music training enrolled
Introduction
Currently, I am largely involved in composing music for interactive media. To be able to produce professional music, I am constantly improving my music competency skills through music training. Recent studies have shown that music training enhances higher level cognition such as verbal memory (Ho, Cheung, & Chan, 2003), IQ (Schellenberg, E. G. 2004), spatial-temporal(Lois Hetland, 2000) and mathematical reasoning(Cheek & Smith, 1999). Brain Activation
As I am extremely passionate about music, I am consistently engaged in …show more content…
We would gather in class together to practise and improve our music ability. Immersing in music training in school has the potential to increase my IQ (Schellenberg 2004), mathematical reasoning (Cheek & Smith, 1999) and verbal intelligence (Ho, Cheung, & Chan, 2003). Another key area of gaining music competency is being able to improvise a tasteful melody over a chord sequence. Improvising requires high level of cognition and activates different areas of the brain as compared to performing a written score. Charles J. Limb, M.D (2008) found that during improvisation, the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain grew in activation. This area of the brain is connected to originality, self-expression and individualism. They further discovered that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex which is connected to practical actions and restrain, decreased in …show more content…
As an aspiring composer, I will be in perpetual connection with music for the following years and will continue to practice good uses of music. The current research studies on music and the brain has certainly displayed a lot of positive potential for the cognitive process of the brain. However, there are still many affecting factors that has to be considered to produce more accurate results. For example, the duration of music training, age when music training started and type of music training enrolled