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The Power of Music: How it Affects Our Brain and Body
TLDR Music has a profound impact on our brain and body, activating various parts and enhancing learning, memory, emotional processing, and overall well-being. Listening to music can improve mental and physical health, increase motivation, and even enhance focus and cognition when used strategically.
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Music is a neurological phenomenon that activates nearly every part of our brain and body, and can be leveraged to shift brain and bodily states, enhance learning and memory, and promote emotional processing and enrichment of life.
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Music is a powerful tool that can describe and evoke emotions with a tremendous degree of nuance, and it has the ability to activate neurons in our brain and body, making our body itself an instrument playing the music from within.
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Music can not only describe and evoke emotions, but it can also imply intent and evoke movement and action within us, as demonstrated by studies on babies' responses to music.
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Listening to music for 10 to 30 minutes per day, even during sleep, increases heart rate variability and improves mental and physical health.
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Listening to music can change our patterns of breathing, which in turn increases heart rate variability and positively impacts our mental and physical health.
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Listening to music activates neural circuits in the brain and body that mobilize the body and increase motivation, and the frontal cortex is particularly activated because it predicts what will happen next in the music.
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Listening to music activates neural circuits in the brain that predict what sound is likely to come next, and when those predictions are broken, it creates a sense of novelty and either evokes a sense of delight or a reduction in dopamine release, while also activating circuits associated with arousal, memory, and emotions.
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Listening to music, especially faster music, can increase motivation and predispose individuals to move, regardless of familiarity with the song or the lyrics.
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Listening to music, especially with lyrics, while doing cognitive work can impede concentration and cognitive performance, and it is best to study and learn either in silence or with quiet instrumentals in the background.
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Listening to music with lyrics, especially lyrics that are familiar, while trying to learn something else can impede learning because it competes with the comprehension of the material, but listening to music with lyrics in between bouts of cognitive work can enhance focus and cognition.
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Listening to music in between bouts of cognitive work can enhance focus and learning, while the effects of music on physical performance during exercise are highly individual and switching between silence and music can enhance performance more than just listening to music throughout.
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Listening to happy music can evoke certain emotional states and increase happiness, regardless of the lyrics, and the tempo and key of the music play a role in this effect.
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The cadence of music is a critical variable in shifting one's mood, and one-hit wonders are often effective in shifting people's mood to a happier state regardless of the lyrical content, which suggests that AI-generated music could potentially have a positive impact on mood as well.
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Listening to happy music for nine minutes or more can shift one's mood into a happier state, while listening to sad music for 13 minutes or more can help process feelings of sadness, and a specific song called "Waitless" by Marconi Union has been shown to reduce anxiety by up to 65% in just three minutes.
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Learning to play an instrument, especially at a young age, enhances brain connectivity and facilitates neuroplasticity and learning.
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Learning to play an instrument and singing, especially in a group, enhances learning and the acquisition of new skills, and increases connectivity between the two hemispheres of the brain, leading to improved cognition, language learning, and mathematics abilities.
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