Here Are Ten Amazing Ways How Music Affects Your Brain
The human brain works in ways we can’t even begin to comprehend. These ten amazing facts about how music affects and even alters your brain will give you a fascinating insight into your own mind.
Music releases dopamine into your brain. The chill you get as you anticipate a crescendo in a piece of music you love is caused by the pleasure chemical, dopamine, which regulates your mood. Music activates the entire brain. MRI research shows that listening to music activates the auditory, emotional, motor and creative areas of the brain.
Music alters your brain’s structure. Brain plasticity evolves as we learn, therefore non-musicians have a lower brain cortex volume than amateur and professional musicians. Listening to music as you exercise boosts performance. Music helps draw your attention from the physical exertion you make when exercising. This means you don’t feel fatigue as readily, because your mind is partly focused on the music. You have an emotional attachment to favorite music. Although we spend most of the time listening to newer music, our longer-lasting musical preferences are made through memory associations or emotional attachments.
Our heartbeats mimic music. A study has found that music modulates our heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. Mood music affects how you perceive the world. Listening to feel-good music actually tricks your brain into feeling good, while sad music can make you feel downbeat and reflective.
Your brain
sometimes keeps singing after the music stops. An ‘earworm’ or ‘brain itch’ is the phenomenon we experience when we can’t get a song out of our heads. Sometimes the auditory cortex of your brain feels the need to fill in a gap in a song’s rhythm. Music therapy helps Parkinson’s and stroke sufferers. Music triggers neuron networks into organized movements that can help overcome problems relating to motor skills and speech. For this reason, music therapy is often prescribed by doctors for Parkinson’s and stroke victims.
Music improves your reasoning and motor skills. Studies have shown that children who have had 3+ years of musical training perform better than average in tests of their motor skills, reasoning and even vocabulary knowledge.
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