Chris

Music and The Brain

This article deals with the effects that various types of music have on the human brain, both mentally and physically. According to this article, music helps with the retention of information. Students that studied with music in the background and then allowed to take the test with the same music playing scored higher than those that studied without music. Later, a similar test was performed to test whether a change in tempo would affect the results of the test. It did. Students who listened to the same music they studied to but at a different tempo scored lower on a standardized test than those that listened to the same music at the same tempo.

I also found that repetition causes sub concious feelings of anger in the listener. This makes no sense, since most of the music on pop stations feature a two or three word phrase repeated a billion times. We know children like repetition, yet we apparently grow out of it by adulthood. Why would our most popular music cause the listener to have an enraged sub concious?

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