How music affects the brain.
Music improves brain health and functions in many ways. It makes you smarter, happier, and more productive at any age. Listening is good, playing is even better. This video is extremely instructive to watch.
Influence music brain
Music has played an important role in every human culture, both present and past. People around the world react to music universally. And now developments in neuroscience allow researchers to quantitatively measure how music affects the brain. The interest in the effects of music on the brain has led to a new branch of research called neuromusicology that explores how the nervous system responds to music. Listening to music and playing music can help you become smarter, happier, healthier, and more productive at all stages of life.
Music brain research
If you want proof of how music affects the brain, it makes sense to look at the brains of people who play a lot of music, professional musicians. Brain scans show their brains are different from non-musicians. Musicians have bigger, better connected, and more sensitive brains. Musicians have superior working memory, auditory skills and cognitive flexibility. Their brains are noticeably more symmetrical and they respond more symmetrically when listening to music. Areas of the brain responsible for motor control, auditory processing and spatial coordination are larger. Musicians also have a bigger corpus callosum . This is the bond of nerve fibers that transmits information between the two hemispheres. This increase in size indicates that the two sides of musicians' brains are better able to communicate with each other. While most of us aren't professional musicians, we still listen to a lot of music, averaging 32 hours a week. This is enough time for music to affect the brains of non-musicians as well.
