We’ve all known someone in a coma. The question is always “can they really hear me or hear music playing?” My answer, based on hundreds of anecdotal accounts is a resounding “yes!”
Archive | Music and the Brain
Can Music Improve Test Scores?
Improving Test Scores with Music When I go out to speak to teachers, parents, and education administrators, I usually tell them that a simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart’s Sonata for Two Piano’s in D Major before taking a test. This type of music […]
Brain Tumors and Music: This CD could help you.
Being dignosed with a brain tumor is a terrifying thing. This recent news story brings hope to those who have experienced this traumatic news.
The Musical Brain
by Dr. Arthur HarveyFrom recent brain research on learning styles, it has been estimated that 80-90% of what is experienced and learned is nonverbal, with what sometimes is described as a “right-brain” mode of processing. We know that for most children and many adults, music is a “right-brain” dominant activity. Based upon that, music may […]
Music Power, and the Brain
Music Power, and the Brain A man named Laurence O’Donnell has written a fascinating paper. and subsuquently a website called “Music Power.” I highly recommend that you check out both. He writes a lot about music and the brain. One thing he says is “Responses to music are easy to be detected in the human […]