{"id":56,"date":"2008-07-09T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:56:10","slug":"do-you-know-how-music-affects-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/do-you-know-how-music-affects-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know how music affects YOUR brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all my blog topics that I write about, the topic of music and the brain seems to generate the most response and the most comments and questions.\u00a0 I can see why too!\u00a0 Everybody loves music although taste in music varies radically from pop, rock and jazz to symphonies, chamber music and opera.\u00a0 Then there are the zillion categories in between!\u00a0\u00a0 I have a blog devoted entirely to the subject (<a href=\"http:\/\/the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com\/<\/a>) and I think you&#8217;d really enjoy reading it and learning how music enters the brain through the 8th cranial nerve, goes round and round in the ear and brain and quickly affects the whole body, one&#8217;s mood \ud83d\ude42 and a whole host of other variables.\u00a0 As far as we know, humans have been creating their version of music since the beginning of time!\u00a0 Early instruments included the voice (of course!), drums, stringed instruments and reed instruments.\u00a0 Brass instruments ad keyboards came much, much later!!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a post from my brain blog that I\u00a0know you&#8217;ll enjoy!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com\/\">Born with a &#8216;music module&#8217;?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\">This is an excerpt from a fascinating interview:JEFFREY BROWN: Music, of course, comes in many forms and appears to have been part of every age and every known culture. There&#8217;s a continuing debate among scientists as to music&#8217;s exact role in human evolution.<br \/>\nBut Levitin believes that the brain itself has evolved to make sense of music and that we&#8217;re each born wired for music, just as we are for language.<br \/>\nDANIEL LEVITIN: If you&#8217;re born listening to Chinese opera, your brain is going to become wired to the rules of that musical form. If you&#8217;re born listening to Pakistani music, Indian music, Indian ragas, your brain will become wired to those. Our brain is plastic, and malleable, and able to wire itself up to whatever language we hear, to learn those rules.<br \/>\nSimilarly, I would argue that we all are born with a music module. We&#8217;re born with the wiring to accommodate any music that we hear, and we learn those rules effortlessly just by listening.<br \/>\nJEFFREY BROWN: Levitin says there&#8217;s an area of the brain, in the prefrontal cortex, specifically dedicated to comparing what we hear with our expectations of learned patterns of music. That&#8217;s the reason we can be surprised, pained or delighted when those expectations are tampered with, something great musicians know to exploit.<br \/>\nDANIEL LEVITIN: When you listen to Stevie Wonder drumming on &#8220;Superstition,&#8221; for example, he&#8217;s playing in time, and you&#8217;re forming predictions about what&#8217;s going to happen next. The additional nuance that he brings to it is that he changes the beats ever so slightly, throughout the whole song, &#8220;Superstition,&#8221; never the same.<br \/>\nSo he&#8217;s going a little bit different. He varies the pressure on the high-hat cymbal, so it&#8217;s a little bit louder, a little bit softer. The beauty of it is that the cerebellum is trying to figure out, &#8220;OK, where is the next beat going to come? What&#8217;s it going to be?&#8221; And he&#8217;s surprising the cerebellum at every turn, so that your brain&#8230;<br \/>\nJEFFREY BROWN: We don&#8217;t talk to too many scientists who are doing Stevie Wonder drum solos for us, I&#8217;ve got to tell you that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all my blog topics that I write about, the topic of music and the brain seems to generate the most response and the most comments and questions.\u00a0 I can see why too!\u00a0 Everybody loves music although taste in music varies radically from pop, rock and jazz to symphonies, chamber music and opera.\u00a0 Then there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[53],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do you know how music affects YOUR brain? 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