Comments on: How Music Affects the Brain and How You Can Use It to Your Advantage

By: alan

alan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:20:37 +0000

“This same idea has been used for stroke victims in the past”
Although the original John Boy Walton method, involved massaging the limbs. In order to send nerve impulses back to the brain’s (telephone exchange switchboard). So that it could perform the rerouting and patching procedures necessary to bypass damaged circuits.

“music has been proven to increase memory and language skills”
Especially if made into songs and rhymes. Maybe it weaves the material into a bigger target , so its easier to find a straggly end and follow that back to what’s effectively a nest of data.

By: Rodi Dodi

Rodi Dodi — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:59:53 +0000

Oliver Sachs’ Musicology is a book that was a revelation to me on that subject. Highly recommended…

By: @PsyrusMC

@PsyrusMC — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:27:19 +0000

Interesting!

Keep these facts coming please

By: Originalribenababy

Originalribenababy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:03:45 +0000

I did my dissertation on the Mozart effect, and I tried varying tempos and controlled for ‘liking’ of the music.

As you stated there isn’t much of an effect, but I found liking of the music was more of a factor on performance than the music itself. Food for thought for all those people drawn into buying baby Mozart cd’s for the wrong reasons.

By: Coldman

Coldman — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:04:07 +0000

Awesome. I never knew the psychology behind it, but I always knew this to be true.

I have a lot of songs on my old playlist that when I’m listening to them it’ll trigger certain memories of the past. Songs that make me think of sad times in my life.
Songs that make me think of a certain girl.
Songs that I used to hear a lot when going out. When I listen to them now it makes me want to go out again.
Etc.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:02:08 +0000

perhaps this might explain why stutterers have no problem singing. I speak from personal experience.

By: Elise

Elise — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:55:13 +0000

Music!!! I love how it can make you feel so many different emotions. I don’t really like slow, soppy songs anymore. More upbeat, dancy, clubby, poppy music always makes me feel happy and like i want to jump around, haha! Classical (some) is very relaxing. Some music makes me zone out and start daydreaming Heeehee. I remember recently Mum put on an old 80s tape that they used to play in the car. Some of these songs, I hadn’t heard in about 20 years! She put on the tape and I remembered a lot of the words and being little and sitting in the back of car listening to the tape. I love how we can hear a song or piece of music and be catapulted back in time, and all sorts of memories come back to us.

By: roz

roz — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:43:42 +0000

music never helped me study. and what makes or breaks my day is usually the news broadcast i hear on the radio after the music! :/

By: Hollie Kavanagh

Hollie Kavanagh — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:28:30 +0000

omg i totally agree, when i listen to certain songs that i havent listened too in ageeees i always remember what i was thinking or what was happening when i first heard the song It can be good but also sometimes reminds me of things that i would rather forget

By: Charlotte O'Regan

Charlotte O'Regan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:25:55 +0000

This is really very interesting, as I’m ways trying new theorys about memory, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis etc. I listen to music all of the time in my headphones, so maybe this could work!
Let’s say, for example, I’m at a fair with all of my friends and were all gettInv along just like we used to in primary school, if I really want to remember certain parts of that day, should I play a song really low in my headphones at the time? And the. Will I remember it better when listening to the song again? Would be over the moon to hear from you, Charlotte