Music and the Brain
Music and the Brain
Summary:
This article talked about how music and the brain work together. Your brain hears certain sounds and pitches and recognizes and stores them in many different parts of your brain. When doing an example on rodents they would make a noise and shock their foot, then two months later they would make that noise and they would react even without being shocked. Brain disorders often only affect a part of their brain. When their speech and language would be messed up they would still react to the music. One composer said that he had a song in his head but he couldn't write it because his language skills were affected by a disease. Music isn't in just one part of your brain when you think about a song and it plays in your head it doesn't involve just one section of your brain, it involves many different areas.
Response:
I thought this was really interesting and it made me think about when you get a song stuck in your head and you aren't even meaning to think about it. It really amazes me how God created our brains to do these complex things and we usually take them for granted. It really brought to my attention that I should be grateful for what He has given me and the amazing things that my body is able to do.
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posted by ♥chloe♥ @ 8:20 PM
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I thought it was interesting how the rodents remebered the cause-effect relationship for a long period of time. It makes me think of how certain songs make us feel certain emotions.
This article was cool because I think all of us can relate with the rodents. When we hear certain songs, we tend to move to the rhythm or do certain thing or dances when we hear certain songs. I also think about how when you hear a certain song and you try and get it out of your head but you can't.
This fascinated me not only because of the Pavlovian effect of a certain stimulus triggering a learned reaction, but also because I made me think that this could be the reason why music is so incomprehensible. though there is a science to it, no one can find a formula for what sounds "good" or "bad" and maybe that's because so much of the brain is involved in its processing.
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