Music and the Brain: Course Guidebook by Aniruddh D. Patel
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Overview: Music is an integral part of humanity. Every culture has music, from the largest society to the smallest tribe. Its marvelous range of melodies, themes, and rhythms taps into something universal. Babies are soothed by it. Young adults dance for hours to it. Older adults can relive their youth with the vivid memories it evokes. Music is part of our most important rituals, including those marking birth, weddings, and death. And it has been the medium of some of our greatest works of art.
Yet even though music is intimately woven into the fabric of our lives, it remains deeply puzzling, provoking questions such as:
How and why did musical behavior originate?
What gives mere tones such a powerful effect on our emotions?
Why does music with a beat give us the urge to move and dance?
Are we born with our sense of music, or do we acquire it by experience?
In the last 20 years, researchers have come closer to solving these riddles thanks to cognitive neuroscience, which integrates the study of human mental processes with the study of the brain. This exciting field has not only helped us address age-old questions about music; it also allows us to ask entirely new ones, like:
Do the brains of musicians differ from non-musicians?
Can musical training promote cognitive development in children?
Does making or listening to music help patients with brain damage?
Is there a deep connection between music and language?
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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