Does singing use a different part of the brain than speaking?
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Singing is a repititious behavior--you sing songs you've sung before.  Speech is different, because usually every time you speak, you say something original and new.  With speech, you are potentially using any number of brain centers.  If you're talking about your plans, you might use you prefrontal cortex that helps you with planning.  If you're talking about something you saw, you might be using your primary visual cortex on the occipital lobe.  If you're talking about emotions, you'd likely involve you limbic systems.\n\nThere's a good probablity that her loss of speech function is not due to a loss of vocal motor control, but rather it is due to a loss of the cortical functions that go into organizing your thoughts.  Two questions: 1) is she similarly impared in writing as a means of communication?  If so, it suggests that the issues are not matters of vocal control, but in thought arrangement.  2) Does she sing new and unique songs that have never been sung, or is she repeating an oft-heard song?\n\nAnyone who has ever done karaoke while drunk knows that singing drunk can be very easy.  Coordination of motor function is controlled by the cerebellum (the large mass of brain that sits like a great big cauliflower at the back of the brain) unless it is pre-empted by the higher functions of the cerebral cortex.  If the cortex exerts direct control, it can have a tendency to "over-think" and cause extra mistakes.  You might have noticed this when playing bowling or miniature golf, that you tend to do better if you don't "think about it."  This is because the cortex can inhibit the function of the cerebellum.\n\nFinally, there are some things that can happen in dementia where a single part of the brain gets extra attention due to a loss of function in other places.  It has been observed that some stroke victims become prolific artists, without any specialized training, because the artistic centers of the brain are unaffected by damage that exists elsewhere.  The result is that the brain focuses more effort into the undamaged areas, and those undamaded areas become repositries of great skill.  Something similar is thought to be happening in the so-called "idiot savant," the person with many great mental deficits, but a noted genius in some particular area.
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Great question, Sassy!  ( And, I'd just like to add that You're a Gorgeous Woman! Wooow!!! )\n\nYou "would" think that apes & gorillas could reproduce simple voice words...but, they cannot.  However, they do understand human words & visual symbols...They certainly understand the meaning of various vocal sounds between one another...Maybe the missing 2 chromosomes are essential for speech? )\n\nBirds that "talk" are just imitating/mimicking phrases that are repeated to them over-and-over again.
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yes it does affect the way you study because your trying to sing at the same time your trying to study and you dont get much studing done. so i think it would be better to study with the radio off and when you get done studing you can do what ever you wont.
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I'd say it's done both ways.  Some people hear the music in their mind first and then write words on how the music made them feel.  Some people write the poem and then put it to music.\n\nI've written both ways.
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It's been looked into and screaming incorrectly (using the wrong technique) can put strain on your vocal chords. If you want to use screaming in music you should be taught the correct technique before you do.
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Actually, all trained singers who sing in English use a special accent, which isn't like their speaking accents either for Brits or Americans.  In order to create very nice-sounding vowels in singing, singers are trained to create the vowels differently.  This may give you the impression that they are speaking American English, but perhaps that is just because you are used to it, since Americans have to be trained to produce the vowels this way as well.  So the UK singers aren't being fake; they are using pronunciation that fits the context, and Americans do the same thing.
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We use 100% of our brain-or at least 100% of our brain sense signals and uses oxygen and glucose.  Any neuron which does not connect with another and depolarize occasionally will probably die.  I have no idea where this myth came from, unless it was from studies of learning and memory.  We can learn a great deal more than most of us do-any average person could learn multiple languages, become expert in a number of fields, etc, but we don't.  This doesnt mean we dont use our brains-learning is more likely the generation of new pathways, connections, etc.  So it may be that we only learn 10% of what we could (put this way, it would be closer to 1%).  The majority of the brain is set aside for motor and sensory system integration- It takes an enormous amount of brain power to just perform our normal movements and to interpret and filter all the huge amount of sensory information we get every second-*That* is the primary action of the cortex.
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To me, that sounds childish.  But sometimes people really cannot modulate their voices to sound the way they want to.  And some people have bad enough hearing that they don't know how they sound.  So you'd have to count what they say, not just what they sound like.
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that would depend on if they are inebriated....\nif they are singing it as they recorded it, no.\nbut if they are in a drunken state, i might consider it a form of karaoke.
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At around age 6, certain neural paths forge themselves in the brain, and though they are capable of extending themselves in the things they know, the set paths of knowledge severely cuts off the sort of open-circuit knowlege aquisition young children possess.  The brain must do this to continue to build on retained knowledge - interestingly enough, language is so vital to our species that it wants to set itself early in development.  Therefore, the abilities to reproduce certain sounds spoken in other languages depletes quickly.  \nA newborn to age 2 year old can reproduce every sound of all languages.  They lose this ability early, and in the US we don't teach other languages until high school, when it's almost too late.  In europe they teach multiple languages at young ages and many Europeans are bi- or tri-lingual.  That is the best way, to teach at a young, young age.  I myself sing Spanish and German folk-songs to my young nieces and nephews.  They love it, and now they sing them with me.
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i believe it is possible. we use less than 10 % of our brain. it is believed that if we could use more then we could fly, move things with our minds, and read peoples thoughts.
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Whenever we hear the words "required" especially in an educational setting, most of us cringe.  But, regarding musical training, it has been scientifically proven as well as practical that children or adults who study music have a higher IQ.  \n\nOn a different level, we can think of music as another language.  It has syntax and grammar just like any written language.  Music also affects many people in different ways.  Think about the way classical music affects people, country music, rock music, rap music, and then note the general attitude and/or lifestyle of each "people group" if I may use that phrase.
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I think people come in both varieties.  I am very much more visual when it comes to memory, but I have known people (mostly musicians, now that I think of it) who were much more audio.  I expect if one or the other faculty is damaged or not present, the other compensates.  It would be interesting to know whether these two styles correlate with handedness, since they probably use different parts of the brain, at least for input if not for storage.
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Language and music are universal among human cultures. Both involve organized acoustic\nsequences and engage complex cognitive and motor processes. The relationship\nbetween language and music has long interested scholars across a broad range of disciplines,\nfrom linguistics to neuroscience.,scientists have proved a grate dynamic between language and music,by the way musicologists and linguists have often suggested that the prosody of a culture’s spoken language\ncan influence the structure of its instrumental music. However, empirical data supporting this idea\nhave been lacking. This has been partly due to the difficulty of developing and applying comparable\nquantitative measures to melody and rhythm in speech and music. This study uses a recently developed\nmeasure for the study of speech rhythm to compare rhythmic patterns in English and\nFrench language and classical music. We find that English and French musical themes are significantly\ndifferent in this measure of rhythm, which also differentiates the rhythm of spoken English\nand French.,so it is absolute interaction between music and learning language.
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People who hear voices are not necessarily committed unless they are a danger to themselves or society.  In most case, they would be given an anti-psychotic.  But this wouldn't work with the religious people, so these voices do not derive from a brain illness.  Nope, they come from a belief system.
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(m)\n\nWhat helium does change is the timbre of your voice. Timbre is what allows you to distinguish between the same note played at the same volume on two different instruments. Timbre also allows you to distinguish different elements of speech (such as vowel sounds) from each other. For this last reason, timbre is very important to interpreting speech. \n\nWhen you speak, air travels from your lungs up through the larynx on its way out of your mouth. In the larynx are a pair of vocal folds which meet to form a V-shaped slit. On its way through, the air hits the underside of your vocal folds causing them to vibrate. This vibration then excites air molecules in your vocal tract, setting up resonant frequencies that are interpreted by the ear. By manipulating your vocal tract (moving your tongue, lips, soft palate, etc.) you can create different resonant frequencies allowing you to make the many different sounds of coherent speech. \n\nEveryday speech is a combination of the vibration of your vocal folds (which influences the pitch) and the vibration of the air in your vocal tract (which influences the timbre). When you say "ee," your tongue, lips, etc., are in a different configuration than when you say "ooh." Each speech element has a specific pattern of frequencies, like a fingerprint. The resonant frequencies that make the "ee" sound are distinct from those that produce "ooh". These distinct patterns allow us to recognize an "ee" sound regardless of pitch--a soprano singing "ee" produces the same resonant frequencies as a baritone singing "ee."\n\nHelium is significantly less dense than air. As a result, the speed of sound is much higher in helium. By inhaling helium you are effectively increasing the speed of the sound of your voice. The configuration of your vocal tract does not change, however. If you increase the speed of a sound while keeping its wavelength constant, you increase the frequency of that sound. (Think of it as a sort of Doppler effect.) Since each element of speech is composed of a pattern of several frequencies, altering the speed of sound distorts that pattern. Result: you sound like Donald Duck.\n\nNote that the pitch remains the same because your vocal folds are vibrating at the same frequency as when you were breathing air. Contrary to many explanations I have read, helium does not significantly affect the vibration of your vocal folds. To repeat yet again, helium drastically changes the timbre of your voice without having any significant effect on its pitch. \n\nI have heard reports of wacky chemistry professors (how's that for redundant?) inhaling balloons full of xenon gas. Because pure xenon is much denser than air, the speed of sound through xenon is slower, and inhaling xenon lowers the resonant frequencies of your vocal tract. Some web sites recommend wearing a cowboy hat while speaking in a "xenon voice" for maximum comedic effect. Yee ha. \n\nOne final note: inhaling helium is not a terribly healthy thing to do. Every time you inhale pure helium, you are not inhaling oxygen. And for the love of Pierre-Jules-Céésar Janssen (the first man to find evidence for the existence of helium), do not inhale helium from a pressurized tank! In addition to risking serious damage to your lungs, you could wind up with helium bubbles in the arteries that supply blood to your brain. This is known as a cerebral arterial gas embolism and can lead to stroke-like symptoms including, of course, death.
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No, this is a myth. A large part of our brain is used as proved by MRI's.