Do you ever get goose bumps from excitement when you listen to certain songs?
Well…a Harvard graduate spent some time researching people that do by examining 20 students, 10 of which admitted to experiencing this feeling in relation to music and 10 that didn’t.
He then took brain scans of all of them all and discovered that those that had managed to make the emotional and physical attachment to music actually have different brain structures than those that don’t.
The research showed that they tended to have a denser volume of fibers that connect their auditory cortex and areas that process emotions, meaning the two can communicate better.
His findings have been published by Neuroscience as saying:
This means if you do get chills from music you are more likely to have stronger and more intense emotions.
Plus these sensations can also be associated with memories linked to a certain song, which cannot be controlled in a laboratory setting.
Although the study was only small in size he is currently conducting further research which will look at the brains activity when listening to songs that register certain reactions.
By doing so he hopes to learn what neurologically causes these reactions and could actually tap into treatment for psychological disorders.
Your Brain and How it is Influenced by Music:
Experts are trying to understand how our brains hear and play music. A stereo system puts out vibrations that travel through the air and make their way inside the ear canal.
These vibrations tickle the eardrum and are transmitted into an electrical signals which travels through the auditory nerve to the brain stem, where it is reassembled into something we perceive as music.
Johns Hopkins University researchers conducted experiments in which they had dozens of jazz performers and rappers improvise music while lying down inside an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine to examine which areas of their brains light up.
Music is structural, mathematical and architectural. At its core, it’s based on relationships between one note and the next. You may not be aware of it, but your brain has to do a lot of computing to make sense of it.
New music challenges the brain in a way that old music doesn’t. It might not feel pleasurable at first, but that unfamiliarity forces the brain to struggle to understand the new sound.
Ever notice how some songs bring you to a moment back in time?
You can actually recall forgotten memories and the bliss that you felt back then by listening to familiar music, especially if it stems from the same time period that you are trying to recall. Case in point: Listening to the Jose Jose or Barry White might bring you back to the first moment you laid eyes on your spouse, for instance.
Diffrent music for diffrent personaleties:
Pay attention to how you react to different forms of music, and pick the kind that works for you. What helps one person concentrate might be distracting to someone else, and what helps one person unwind might make another person jumpy.
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