🧠 Here are some ways it influences us:
Memory Enhancement and Concentrated Focus:
Listening to music 🎶🎶activates areas of the brain associated with memory, reasoning, speech, emotion, and reward.
Music helps us retrieve stored memories and also helps in laying down new memories. Music creates new neural pathways!🎉
Music is a universal language ~ When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. We can feel everything as if we were there. ➰
Some studies indicate that certain kinds of music can have a negative effect on our mood (i.e., make us sad or anxious). It does matter what kind of music we are listening to. It is important to listen to music that will be uplifting. Some research shows that classical music is brain friendly.
Memories stimulated by music often come from certain times in our lives. Most people tend to overly report memories from when they were around 10 to 30 years old. Psychologists have called it the “reminiscence bump.
The reminiscence bump period can be associated with more memories than music from other periods in your life. Our teenage years and twenties are especially important and exciting times in our lives, as we experience things for the first time. Music preference is also formed around the middle teenage years.
Should we listen to music while at work? 🧑🏼🏭
Some research suggests that the music might compete with work tasks, so it is better to listen to music before or after work.
Creativity Boost: Happy and stimulating music can enhance “divergent” thinking, which is a core component of creativity. Next time you need a creative spark, consider listening to music. The type of music 🎶you listen to does matter!
Brain Health: Research suggests that music may enhance brain development and academic performance.
In sum, music can help to unlock non-musical memories. Recalling a memory is not always easy. It doesn’t simply come when you want to retrieve it. However, music helps to recall all the memories that you’ve connected with a song. Listening to a piece of music that was played a lot during a significant life event, such as a wedding or funeral, can trigger a deeply nostalgic emotional experience.
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