Okay, so remember in a previous post I said something about how different music has different effects, but I didn't know how to go into any detail? Well, I did some research for my biology project, so how about I share some of the info with you!
There's an online article called "Music & How It Affects Your Brain, Emotions." It talks about the part of our brains that processes music. Apparently, music is super effective, because the part of the brain that understands it is the part that also deals with motivation, emotion, and reward.
The article even said that our brains automatically put a pattern to the music we hear! I guess that means we can kind of guess what note is coming next even in a song we haven't heard before?
And you know those goose bumps you sometimes get when listening to music? According to this article, that's the composer taking advantage of what he knows we'll expect and purposely changing it. Incredible, right?
Oh, and I found a website called Dove Song that talks about the differences between positive and negative music. According to this source, here's positive music: "has beneficial qualities and is emotionally and spiritually uplifting, perhaps even healing; can be relaxing, calming, and mentally invigorating." And negative music "stimulates the negative emotions: anger, frustration, depression, hatred and fear."
Whoops, running out of room to continue in this post. But tomorrow, maybe I'll tell you about one or more of the experiments I found. If you don't want to wait that long, all of them are also on that Dove Song website. =)
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