This is basic level research of all the processes from music perception and recognition to the effects of rhythm on the way that people dance or move their bodies to music. After sound reaches the eardrum, it sets into motion of a complex combination of mechanical, chemical, and neural events in the cochlea, brain stem, midbrain nuclei, and cortex that result in a percept. The cerebellum plays a role in remembering the “settings” that can be used for synchronizing to music as people hear it, and it can recall these “settings” when people need it. The basal ganglia are the most important organ as it receives rhythm, tempo, and meter from the music and send the signals to recruit motor control…
Cooper, B. (2013, November 20). 8 Surprising Ways Music Affects the Brain. Retrieved February 6, 2015, from https://blog.bufferapp.com/music-and-the-brain…
Patel (2010), mediates the argument between Pinker 's provocative claim and ethnomusicologists. Patel (2010) agrees with Pinker, calling it a “human invention”, but disagrees for its lack of importance(Patel 2010, p.2). Interaction with music during ones lifetime allows changes to occur in the neural system, thus accommodating for music, terming it: “Transformative Technology of the Mind(TTM)” (Patel 2010, p.2). In support of TTM, brain imaging studies pinpointed that “Brocas area” is responsible for cognitive hierarchal functions(Koelsch, 2011, p.7). Hierarchal functions govern behaviour that are produced via structural rules. Quite possibly, Gestalts principles (Proximity, Similarity, Closure and Continuation) could be the framework for Hierarchal structure since all features are a fitting template for visual perception. Still, for “musical wholes” it is more selective(Tan, 2010, p.7). Nonetheless, all cognitive functions attempt to achieve a meaningful whole, regardless of the route taken. Many studies found Hierarchy apparent in language, music, action and mathematical ability(Koelsch, 2011). Therefore it is unsurprising researchers find that music enhances “language, attention, auditory scene analysis and so forth”, because…
In his article, Inferior Frontal Gyrus Activation Underlies the Perception of Emotions, While Precuneus Activation Underlies the Feeling of Emotions during Music Listening it is explained that music triggers certain parts of the brain. “The fact that the precuneus region is likely responsible for self-representation implicates this brain area in the assessment of the emotional response to music,’’ is what Tabei concludes his evidence and statement with, and it is perfect because it doesn’t just state that music makes you feel good. It explains that music impacts the…
The hippocampus is a brain structure crucial for creating long-lasting memories has been observed to be active in response to recurring musical phrases while listening to music. Thus, the hippocampal involvement in long-term memory may be less specific than previously thought, indicating that short and long-term memory processes may depend on each other after all. The cerebellum is traditionally and primarily viewed as a motor structure, it is important to recognize that the cerebellum is a developmental derivative of the dorsal half of the neural tube, which is the embryological source of sensory structures in humans. Therefore, the cerebellum is also a major associative center for sensory input integration, including auditory stimuli, which will be the focus of this article. The cerebral cortex If you actually perform music, your frontal lobe for planning, and your motor and sensory cortex will activate as well. Because playing music requires coordination of motor control, somatosensory touch and auditory information, most musicians are known to have developed a greater ability than the average person to use both…
This contains the description of the general hypothesis to be studied. It is the effect of music on the frontal lobe response and limbic system function.…
Musical motor performance involves the same brain regions as other motor tasks, those being the: motor, premotor, supplementary motor area (SMA), the cerebellum and the basal ganglia, as well as somatosensory, auditory, emotional, temporal, and memory loops.…
Although many research findings can be confusing or contradictory (Yehuda, 2011), it has been shown many ways and in many times that music affects the brain psychologically. Elliot, Polman, & McGregor (2011) found that music only has the desired psychological effect 50% of the time. Musical activity requires the use of most regions of your brain and almost every neural subsystem (Levitin, 2006). Hoffman & Lamme (1989) found that it is more helpful to learn with music and information is picked up more easily by the brain. Most times when background music is playing, people hear, but do not listen (Jourdaid, 1997). It is also shown by Jourdaid (1997) that while we hear with our brain stems, we listen with our cerebral cortex. When music is put in the background and we only hear it, the brain doesn’t meet or overcome new perceptual challenges, therefore nothing new is learned (Jourdaid, 1997).…
In the second chapter of Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music, he discusses Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony.…
Impassioned responses to music include the cerebrum's limbic projection, which consolidates structures, for example, the amygdala, hypothalamus, thalamus and cingulate gyrus that procedure enthusiastic responses sub-cortically. Which suggest that music can unconsciously affect the listener…
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…
Music and radio has roots in American culture and the way society is today. The different types of music genres have shaped American culture and social behavior of Americans. Audio media has had a major affect and influence on the attitudes of Americans and especially today’s youth and young adults.…
"Such evidence suggests that music is a consequence of biological evolution and is therefore associated with specific brain architecture. Music can evidently trigger physical changes in the brain's wiring. By measuring faint magnetic fields emitted by the brains of professional musicians, has shown that intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated with higher brain function" (Lemonick 2003).…
Rauscher, F.H., Shaw, G. L., & Katherine, N. (1993). Music and Spatial task performance. Nature, 365, 611.…
“Science has shown that when children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear and process sounds that they couldn’t otherwise hear.”(Locker ) This statement by Melissa Locker is continuously backed up by multiple reliable sources from various scientific journals throughout the internet. Even though violent music can cause people to have violent tendencies, music is very beneficial to your brain because music helps your brain to maintain its plasticity and music helps our brains to be able to better interpret specific sounds when you are older.…