Music's Deep Dive: The Emotional Elixir We've Overlooked - Neuroscience News
The acts of listening to and making music help us activate the vagus and access the Green state, which enables our bodies to better access neural pathways that are conducive to all types of learning, problem-solving, and creative thinking.
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World
We can do this using music. Music cuts through our rational, critical thinking and instantly neutralizes our analytical skills. Certain strains of music immediately open up the floodgates of sorrow, joy, hope, lust, bittersweet nostalgia and hundreds of other raw and subtle emotions. Music bypasses the logical circuits and accesses emotion directly
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Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: “We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music,
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
According to a 2011 research project based on a fMRI study of people listening to music, familiarity with a song reflexively causes emotional engagement; it doesn’t
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
How do you want to feel?
The human brain is wired to respond to sound. Music adds meaning and dimension that is hard to capture with just text.
Elements such as pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, amplitude, scale, and tones, along with the graduated series of notes or intervals dividing octaves, have an affective, emotional, psychological, cognitive, an
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