Interesting article. Music makes me feel happy, sad and everything in between! Nothing better than listening to a song I’ve heard many times and hearing some new nuance that I had never noticed before.
Why Music Is Good For The Brain
Why Music Is Good For The Brain
"Can music really affect your well-being, learning, cognitive function, quality of life, and even happiness? A recent survey on music and brain health conducted by AARP revealed some interesting findings about the impact of music on cognitive and emotional well-being."
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i apologize. Sorry I have to say this with as many old folks on this forum. I am sure it is a great article. AARP is in a very close “partnership” with United Healthcare. Billions of dollars flow between these two organizations A fact that is completely hidden. . Why is this important…”Because today some of AARP's policy positions, actions or inactions seem to be more aligned with its financial partners' interests than the well-being of the senior Americans its leadership claims to represent.” states the Des Moines Register. When I found out I was incensed. They portray independence. They are not remotely.
I apologize again. Nothing directly to do with the article. But a fact I think every person over 50 needs to know. There is a good article in Forbes on it as well.
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@ghdprentice Is nothing sacred? Never joined AARP and still rely on AAA for discounts! |
This article about the music and the brain tell another story ... All is not "bunk" ... The studies of the relation between the brain and music is not old matter... Neuroimaging is a new fields... This article explain in few experiments why it is not bunk...
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jbbs_2020012115154201.pdf This book tell also another story and effectively the brain is influenced as much by music that music perception is influenced by the brain : https://www.amazon.ca/Oxford-Handbook-Music-Brain/dp/0198804121
This book is free to consult : https://hugoribeiro.com.br/biblioteca-digital/Peretez_Zatorre-Neuroscience_of_Music.pdf
The publicity about this book with one of the writer a neurologist reveal the opposite of "bunk" :
I will order the book ...
Music change consciousness state and level or can do so, as meditation do, with measurable effects on the brain... We can read how music affect the brain with neuroimaging etc and in reverse reading how the brain parts contributes to the interpretation and understanding of music ...
Anyway one of the greatest scientist in the studies of artificial brain think the human brain is "music" ...In a litteral way... Anirban Bandyopadhyay and his book which is one of the best i read: Nanobrain ...
As the indian scientist i just use, i believe in the unity of mind/body because the mind body is part of the universe, not an external part as in old materialism and nominalism but as an internal part , then a wholeness as in Vedic litterature and as in modern research on artificial brain done by Anirban ...
Then we cannot separate the mind from the brain nor reduce the mind to the mere brain, no more than we can reduce the music to a written partition or even reduce it to one orchestral interpretation...
I dont doubt that music is a powerful therapy way underestimated because big pharma cannot make a profit with it and then will not pay to know about it... I dont doubt that music can change not only the superficial moods of a person but in some case, some sound and some speech can rewire the brain... Try the OM sound or Christ name, for a year and go under neuroimaging after it ... take a baby and use the mother voices or the voice of an alien woman and measure the therapeutic effect of the two on the baby ... It is evident that sound as speech or music impact the material brain and the soul also and the health... |
@hilde45 But our minds are our brains (and body). Are you suggesting there is a third component? |
@noromance I understand "brain" as a scientific model, a mockup for explanatory and predictive purposes -- a reduction, or better, a neuroreductionism. I'm more convinced that what we term the "mind" emerges from interaction among brain, yes, but also body and our environment, both physical and cultural. The use of "brain" is now rhetorical, very often. People recommend this or that based on it being "good for the brain" when they actually have very little evidence of that or even what it might mean for something to be "good for the brain." |
The point about the brain as real phenomenon and our ridiculous reductive models of the brain ( as the works of the mere neurons levels for example or as a computer etc ) as made by hilde45 is very good and in my opinion right ... Once this is said ...
All brain models are not reductionism or the product of reductionism... For example the specific model of the brain of Anirban Bandyopadhyay or the specific different but not opposite model of Penrose and Hameroff are not reductionism at all and oppose all reductionism... The same is true in a less evident way for the Karl Friston understanding of the brain working ... There is others...
Once this is said, sounds(speech) as prayers or as doctors and healers command or some music in some context, are tools for "miracles" which are easy to verify and already had been...Ignorants or ideologues only doubt them ...Read the "Lourdes" Zola enquiry ...This is only an example ...There is too much examples to fill a small books it needs an encyclopedia for miracles...😊 Music therapy is recognized everywhere save by big pharma... Guess who are the crooks now ? The healers or mr. Bourla ? Any drugs well recognized and cheap, big pharma do what must be do to eliminate it from the market to maintain profit... Music therapy for them is the worst delusion...It does not takes a genius nor deep inquiry to guess where are the crooks... 😊
«I walk only in my brain»-- Groucho Marx 🤓 |
All these quantum consciousness hypotheses appear to be efforts to either dig deeper into explaining how neurons function in the brain itself, or to create some framework of religious mysticism and, dare I say, a pseudoscientific explanation of what spiritual folk call the soul? Hopefully, it's the former. |
Yes there is "marketing by ignorance " as the publicity about buying this perfume by Guerlain or Chanel because the quantum states of these molecules had been enhanced etc ...😉 But the scientists i cited above are top in the world not marketers ... There is "quantum" and quantum....
«Music is so good for the brain because the brain is music itself, pick the right tune»-- Anonymus neurologist working for Pfizer only for money but free in his mind 🙊
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I was researching a paper on music and mental health/state in the Fall of 1973 and the only reference material I could find in a sizable Uni library was the following (depicted) book - since with @ least one revision. Because of this I switched the topic to why heroin (not methadone) should be legalized and governmentally controlled in the United States.
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Why We Remember Music and Forget Everything Else "In a 2010 study published in Music Perception, Halpern and colleagues had musicians listen to the first minute of familiar classical pieces and record their judgments of the emotions they were hearing in the music through their valence and arousal. Then, the participants did the experiment again while just imagining the first minute of these songs playing in their minds. “The overlap in their profiles was astonishing, which means that they were doing this complicated piece in real time and extracting the same emotions,” Halpern says. The musicians were able to map the emotions expressed in the music even when it was playing in their heads and imagine the music so vividly that their scores were almost identical. This shows that we can quite accurately recreate some aspects of music in our minds. “Imagining music is actually a very similar experience to perceiving music,” Jakubowski says. “There [are] very strong parallels in terms of the brain activation you see when you imagine music versus when you perceive music.” |
Great article....thanks... We are made of "music" , the content of consciousness is information as waves in mathematics... We are waves... I personaly believe as if i always " had know" it that there exist a universal memory where all beings are ONE, because all others memories combine and interact without confusion ... I trust only mathematics ... And mystics about it ... Philosophers are way less trusty here ... 😊 Save philosophers enlightened by mathematics and mystical experiences and musical one ...( as Bach ) I doubt everything else but not this fact ... Then even in alzheimer with the apparent lost of the ego personality by lost of all filters making it possible in the brain , the basic memory of emotions written in music form cannot disapear, it override the brain filters in normal life who make the separated ego possible... Music and numbers are not less real than a table ...I pity those who dont experience it ... |
In a state of listening to music I am always amazed at how my modes of thinking and visualization change. I have thoughts of a character not experienced in my more mundane "waking" state. It doesn't matter to me at all where science wants to say the thoughts are "located." They are located in a wonderful place. |