EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN THROUGH MUSIC:
We all agree upon one fact that in order to live a healthy and happy lifestyle one needs to do at least a minimal physical exercise that is recommended by every health care adviser. The usual seven benefits of regular physical activity to feel better, to have more energy and perhaps even to live longer are: 1. To control weight, 2. To combat health conditions and diseases, 3.To improve mood, 4. To boost energy, 5. To promote better sleep, 6. To put the spark into your “FAMILY LIFE”, 7. To have fun doing it.
The same way music exercises one’s brain that promotes 1. Better Memory, 2. To Get Things done, 3. Safer Driving, 4. Self Confidence, 5. Motivated to try new Things, 6. Quicker Reactions, 7. Sharper Listening, 8. Lower Crash Risk, 9. Finding Correct Words, 10. Sharper Vision, 11. Faster Thinking, 12. Good Mood. Are you aware that Musicians’ brains are often used as models of neuroplasticity. Indeed, many studies have shown that music training can change the brain. Musicians have larger brain volume in areas that are important for singing songs or playing an instrument: motor, auditory and visuo-spatial regions. Specifically, musicians may have an advantage for processing speech in challenging listening environments compared with non-musicians.
When we sing or play any musical instrument, we literally exercise our brains in a very unique manner. There are enough scientific evidences to prove that the music training, music experience, music exposure, music education, or even listening to music can change or alter one’s brain functionality. It definitely molds our thinking style to the way we never used to think before, and it trains many other cognitive facilities that have nothing to do with music as well.
WHAT DOES THE TERM ‘EAR WORM’ MEAN?
Have you ever experienced that a specific section of a song gets stuck in your head for a period of time, which bothers you so much at times? The part that is stuck in your head is often not the part that you really like the most. The part that plays over and over, as if a repaired loop button in your brain’s music player is stuck. Researchers believe that these bothering segments of music as "EAR WORMS." No one yet found why, when, how it happens, but many scientists and researchers are looking into finding out scientific reasons.
Daniel Levitin a psychologist who studies the neuroscience of music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec says that the segment that usually gets stuck in people's heads tend to be melodically or rhythmically very simple and usually it’s just a segment of the song, never an entire song. He believes that listening to a different song or tune may help us get rid of the ear worm. "What Levitin believes is that what our brain thinks is going on in the neural circuits which get stuck in a repeating loop and the brain plays it over and over again. He says that in rare cases, ear worms can actually be harmful and can disturb people's everyday’s life. There are many incidents that people have to take anti-anxiety medications, which is given for mind obsessive-compulsive disorder, drugs that relax the neural circuits that are stuck in an infinite loop when they couldn’t sleep, focus or work because of songs that won't leave their mind.
We all agree upon one fact that in order to live a healthy and happy lifestyle one needs to do at least a minimal physical exercise that is recommended by every health care adviser. The usual seven benefits of regular physical activity to feel better, to have more energy and perhaps even to live longer are: 1. To control weight, 2. To combat health conditions and diseases, 3.To improve mood, 4. To boost energy, 5. To promote better sleep, 6. To put the spark into your “FAMILY LIFE”, 7. To have fun doing it.
The same way music exercises one’s brain that promotes 1. Better Memory, 2. To Get Things done, 3. Safer Driving, 4. Self Confidence, 5. Motivated to try new Things, 6. Quicker Reactions, 7. Sharper Listening, 8. Lower Crash Risk, 9. Finding Correct Words, 10. Sharper Vision, 11. Faster Thinking, 12. Good Mood. Are you aware that Musicians’ brains are often used as models of neuroplasticity. Indeed, many studies have shown that music training can change the brain. Musicians have larger brain volume in areas that are important for singing songs or playing an instrument: motor, auditory and visuo-spatial regions. Specifically, musicians may have an advantage for processing speech in challenging listening environments compared with non-musicians.
When we sing or play any musical instrument, we literally exercise our brains in a very unique manner. There are enough scientific evidences to prove that the music training, music experience, music exposure, music education, or even listening to music can change or alter one’s brain functionality. It definitely molds our thinking style to the way we never used to think before, and it trains many other cognitive facilities that have nothing to do with music as well.
WHAT DOES THE TERM ‘EAR WORM’ MEAN?
Have you ever experienced that a specific section of a song gets stuck in your head for a period of time, which bothers you so much at times? The part that is stuck in your head is often not the part that you really like the most. The part that plays over and over, as if a repaired loop button in your brain’s music player is stuck. Researchers believe that these bothering segments of music as "EAR WORMS." No one yet found why, when, how it happens, but many scientists and researchers are looking into finding out scientific reasons.
Daniel Levitin a psychologist who studies the neuroscience of music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec says that the segment that usually gets stuck in people's heads tend to be melodically or rhythmically very simple and usually it’s just a segment of the song, never an entire song. He believes that listening to a different song or tune may help us get rid of the ear worm. "What Levitin believes is that what our brain thinks is going on in the neural circuits which get stuck in a repeating loop and the brain plays it over and over again. He says that in rare cases, ear worms can actually be harmful and can disturb people's everyday’s life. There are many incidents that people have to take anti-anxiety medications, which is given for mind obsessive-compulsive disorder, drugs that relax the neural circuits that are stuck in an infinite loop when they couldn’t sleep, focus or work because of songs that won't leave their mind.
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