So maybe rock music is actually a better learning tool than Mozart?
Check this out from the New York Times on the last day of 2006 and find the answer. Music of the Hemispheres
The reporter interviews Daniel Levitin and discusses some findings in "This Is Your Brain On Music" in www.yourbrainonmusic.com. (Warning - the site loads slowly, but it's worth it).
Among other things, Levitin shows how music activates the pleasure neurotransmitters of the brain and makes the brain happy. It'll go into deep detail for the science minded folks who want to know the what behind the why of music's emotional power.
The evolutionary biologist in him will rile some of you up. His conclusions presuppose there is no God or design behind the music of the inner spheres, but his amazing descriptions of what's flashing across the brain while we view and listen to music are worth they buy. (By the way, watching live music is much more brain engaging than simply listening to it... but listening to a song that we once saw performed live is almost as good as being there!)
Levitin also has found that musical ability is not one ability, but a dozen or more all put together. That's why they stick so well, cross over and connect so much of the brain, and make music such a potent educational tool.
Here's a fun threat snipped from Wired News:
WN: What are we learning about the link between music and emotion in the brain?
Levitin: Music activates the same parts of the brain and causes the same neurochemical cocktail as a lot of other pleasurable activities like orgasms or eating chocolate -- or if you're a gambler winning a bet or using drugs if you're a drug user. Serotonin and dopamine are both involved.
WN: Could music be an antidepressant?
Levitin: It is already -- most people in Western society use music to regulate moods, whether it's playing something peppy in the morning or something soothing at the end of a hard day, or something that will motivate them to exercise. Joni Mitchell told me that someone once said before there was Prozac, there was her.
WN: What is an earworm, and what doctor do I see if I get one?
Levitin: It's the name the Germans give to these songs that get stuck in your head that you can't get rid of. If they're really bothersome, you can do what Neil Young told me: Become a professional songwriter. He writes songs to get them out of his head.
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