Listening to music uses MAAANY parts of your brain!

Thank you for the information Teo.
The brain is a complex part of our anatomy. I cannot comprehend how it all functions, but I do know that all parts of my body and my brain love gentle and soothing music.



Love,
yoko

Thank you for the nice words dear Yoko!

In my music studies, hey, I'll look into ANYTHING! (This proves it!)

I found this over-nerdy, but hey, I guess many thinks in the brain are over-technical if you analyze them...

like:

quote:

At a deeper level, the emotions we experience in response to music involve structures deep in the primitive, reptilian regions of the cerebellar vermis...

Hmm... my reptilian regions are listening? I guess music truly soothes the savage beast! he he..



Love and *LIGHT* *BEING*, Teo Do (Re, Mi, Fa, Soul....)

I thought the correct quote was "music soothes the savage breast."

It's William Congreve. Here's the whole quote:

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

What was that instrument that Duran Duran puts Barbarella into?

It seemed she burnt the thing out while it was trying to extract her savage beast while stroking her savage breast.

Never bite off more than you can chew, I say. Especially if your machine language is more fluent than your intergallactic esperanto.

I'm in the Hanoi Jane part of my brain right now. And I like it.

There it is. Magic Fingers!

Thank you Teo.
Gentle music affects all parts of my brain, and actually all parts of my body.

I think my cats will agree with me.



Love,
Sue

Thank you for sharing Teo.
This is quite an earful of information.

I love to listen to beautiful classical music, and it affects my brain in a very positive way, not to mention the ears.

Gisele

Thank you Teo.
I forgot that my brain had so many parts.
However many parts it takes I enjoy listening to beautiful music.

Love,
Vicky

Glad you all enjoyed listening to this post... with many parts of your brain! he he..

And thanks YogiWon/Nick/Billy Congreve:

He looks pretty soothed, hum? he he..

quote:

It's William Congreve. Here's the whole quote:

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

Thanks for the savage beast soothing datums! Aaaaahhhh soothed...

though... here comes more savage beast(ly nerdismsnesses!)


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Most astonishing was that the left-hemisphere regions that we found were active in tracking musical structure were the very same ones that are active when deaf people are communicating by sign language. This suggested that what we had identified in the brain wasn't a region that simply processed whether a chord sequence was sensible, or whether a spoken sentence was sensible. We were now looking at a region that responded to sight-to the visual organization of words conveyed through American Sign Language. We found evidence for the existence of a brain region that processes structure in general, when the structure in conveyed over time..

All sound begins at the eardrum. Right away, sounds get segregated by pitch. Not much lager, speech and music probably diverge into separate processing circuits... The music circuits start to decompose the signal and separately analyze pitch, timbre, contour, and rhythm. The output of the neurons performing these tasks connects to regions in the frontal lobe that put all of it together and try to figure out if there is any structure or order to the temporal patterning of it all. The frontal lobes access our hippocampus and regions in the interior of the temporal lobe and ask if there is anything in our memory banks that can help to understand this signal. Have I heard this particular pattern before? If so, when? What does it mean? Is it part of a larger sequence whose meaning is unfolding right now in front of me?

I went to a HIPpoCAMPUS, does that count?

Thank you for posting this topic Teo.
It is very informative.
I enjoyed reading this post.

Right now I am trying to recover from a long trip, so my brain may not be registering much...hahaha.

Music has a very big effect on our brain.
It is also important what type of music is beneficial for you and which is harmful. People are not all the same, but we all benefit from good music.Some of us need peaceful sounds and others need more vibrant and rapid tunes.



love,
yoko

Thank you again Teo,

and I agree with you yoko.

 

Let us listen to the music that we love,

and that makes us feel good.