what is the relationship between music and the brain?
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The brain controls the body's rhythms.  Music is a rhythm.  That is why most soothing music generally corresponds to about the beat of the human heart (60-70 beats per minute).  And why music with a faster beat and well defined rhythm makes you want to dance.
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feeding music is no good...doesn't coincide w/ my pot...yummy...but studies show that music makes u better at math and expands ur brain, so yes.
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The human brain controls heartbeat, respiration, digestion and other autonomic functions. It is the seat of thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The brain is what makes the cognitive mind possible such as perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories.\n\nWhile all that is good and fine if this is a homework question for elementary school or middle school just put down that it controls thoughts and emotions or something less complicated.
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Exercise and music both release endorphins in the brain.
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Yes it does. An upbeat melody causes an increase in the heart rate. Fetuses in the womb are also affected by music, because they can hear the music through the amniotic liquid. Classical music is very soothing to them, loud music can be very frightening or disturbing. This has been demonstrated on sonigrams.
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Recent studies have cast some light on the phenomemon of\nsong-stickage. Although the 'why' is still under investigation, the\n'where' seems to be the auditory cortex of the brain. There is even a\nname for songs that tend to stick in your head. They are called\n"earworms."\n\n"If you've ever gotten a song stuck in your head, you know how\nannoying it can be. Researchers at Dartmouth University can't stop the\naggravation, but they do have a good idea what parts of the brain keep\nreplaying the music.\n\nUsing brain imaging techniques and a good CD collection, they found\nthat the auditory cortex, the same part of the brain that passes\ninformation from the ears to the brain, also holds onto musical\nmemories.
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Music is in each and every single culture in the world.  It is a way of spirituality.  A way of celebration.  Music is the one true link between every single human alive and even those that have passed.  I say that because sometimes after a person has passed on and you suddenly hear a certain song, it brings them right back to you.
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The brain is the organ responsible for thought and other functions.  The mind is the abstract concept that is the culmination of all thoughts, not a physical object.
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Music is a form of communication between souls that no words can describe.  When you discover the type of music that moves you, you have found joy.  When you have found a special person that is moved by the same music, you have found love.
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yes. this is due to the changes of hormone in our body which lead to mood swings. thats y our music taste changes according to our mood.
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This is a really complicated question.  Personality is a concept that invloves several different things.  As far as where the parts of the brain that is used during thinking and some emotions, this is mostly the frontal lobe (and probably more specifically the prefrontal cortex).  That said, the brain is full of connections to all sorts of areas and something like personality is so broad that it would cover many different sections of the brain.
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Great Question Coastal\nOur brain attempts to process every single sensory event in our lives on a continual 24 hour a day basis. \n\nWe tend to like music better than most regular sounds because regular sounds tend to be non patterned and hard to identify, catagorize and process. Music is usually rythmic and patterned, which is easier for our brains to identify and process.\nSome music is easier for your brain to process than others because the notes exist at a frequency that is easy for your brain to recognize and transfer through its "pipeline".\nMusic is a very personal experience because the atomic processing systems of each person is unique. \nCertain frequencies will affect each person differently.\n\nThere are many other factors involved in music being deemed enjoyable, such as associative relationships. (what was happening to you while the music played, what memories are evoked while the song is playing. etc..)\n\nScientifically speaking, our Physical sense of pleasure from music, without taking into account any other factors, will be the result of the compatibilty of our processing system with the frequency being processed.  (What frequencies of energy, or combination of frequencies of energy, are easiest, or most satisfying for our existing energy sensing system to process.) \n\nExample-1\nToo much heat energy through our touch sensory system in our fingers will cause the atoms in our fingers to absorb too much energy and swell, possibly to destructive levels. We perceive this as a burn. Some people however can handle much more heat energy than others before feeling pain.\n\nExample-2\nToo much audio energy at an uncumfortable level,(air horn siren), will do the same thing to the atoms that transfer the sound energy after it is converted to electrical signal. \nEvery person has an optimal range of audio energy processing that is different from everyone else. We tend to listen to the \ntype of energy that is the easiest for us to process.\n\nAnimals can probably appreciate the difference between soothing comforting energy levels and assaultive painful ones.\n\nA lot of info, but I hope this helps.\nKeep asking the good questions.
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They are integrally tied in a unity of the physical and the unexplained.\n\nOur brain is....\nA convoluted, layered lump of micro-neuron pudding.\nFats and proteins forming electrochemical paths and branches.\nThe branches and paths develop loose circuits which react and modify themselves according to incoming sensory stimulus.\n\nSpontaneous interactions within the circuits, creating cascades of intangible formulations. A foundation of learned response and cause and effect experience allows the formulations to shape themselves into what we refer to as "thoughts". Thinking a volume of collective thoughts forges a "mind" or a "sentient consciousness". \n\nIf an individual's central nervous system is rendered defective, is not the mind affected as well? Of course.\n\nIn accompaniment with all this bio-stuff, is what we believe is a spirit or soul. The soul is part of God's realm and interacts with the sceintific brain in a constant struggle. This is the source of the "quiet thoughts". Your "concience"! If you can learn to "listen" to your spirit ALONG with your biological brain, you will acheive harmony.\nYour life will change.\n\nI hope this helps....I'm still working at it!
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Good music can raise your vibration and uplift your soul.  Bad music can sound like hell to your ears and depress or frustrate you.  It doesn't matter the genre as much as the thoughts put into that music.  A responsible person will never need to be told what to listen to or not listen to because they will be wise enough to choose what's right and best.
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The human brain. Look at everything around you, it was created by the human brain. Cars, buildings, nuclear weapons, etc. were created by the human brain. Everything that you feel emotionally, all of your passion, motivation, and "spirit" is the direct result of your brain.
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The human mind is associated with the brain.  The brain tends to use neurons which have previously been used over those which have never been used.  Background assumptions, beliefs, paradigms all tend to prevent new associations with old concepts.
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evolution ... music changes ... music has a life of its one ... think about it ... music can make you happy or sad ... its a language ... and just like language .. it evolves