TUESDAY, June 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) — If your loved one’s crooning is music to your ears, the reason appears to rest with part of brain that is super-sensitive to pitch.
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Mood-Altering Messenger Goes Nuclear
Serotonin is best known for its role as a chemical messenger in the brain, helping to regulate mood, appetite, sleep, and many other functions. It exerts these influences by binding to its receptor on the surface of neural cells. But startling new work suggests the impact of serotonin does not end there: the molecule also can enter a cell’s nucleus and directly switch on genes.
Music captivates listeners and synchronizes their brainwaves
Music has the ability to captivate us; when listeners engage with music, they follow its sounds closely, connecting to what they hear in an affective and invested way. But what is it about music that keeps the audience engaged? A study by researchers from The City College of New York and the University of Arkansas charts new ground in understanding the neural responses to music.
How listening to music ‘significantly impairs’ creativity
- Summary: The popular view that music enhances creativity has been challenged by researchers who say it has the opposite effect. Psychologists investigated the impact of background music on performance by presenting people with verbal insight problems that are believed to tap creativity. They found that background music ‘significantly impaired’ people’s ability to complete tasks testing verbal creativity — but there was no effect for background library noise.
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Dopamine modulates reward experiences elicited by music
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals a causal link between dopamine and the reward responses in humans when listening to music.
Which musical instrument can you play?
This Konnakol composition by Manjunath BC follows the Fibonacci pattern: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21
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