The human brain's reaction to music
BENEFITS OF MUSIC
Pregnant women
- Music reduces pregnancy stress levels
- Music helps strengthen the bond with the baby since the singing voice has a richer frequency range than speech
- Music may help in foetal brain development
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Children
- Music in childhood can accelerate brain development, particularly in the areas of language and reading skills
- Learning to play an instrument can improve mathematical learning, attention, reasoning and problem-solving skill, increase test scores and make a children's IQ higher.
- Music helps with all of the areas of child development and skills for school: intellectual, social and emotional, motor and language skills.
Adolescents
- Music usually provides a way of identifying and expressing their emotions through listening or playing.
-Involvement with music can be very cathartic, as singers and songwriters usually use lyric writing as a means of emotional catharsis.
- Listening to a certain type of music can give teenagers access to a group of other teenage listeners, improving social skills and communication.
- Music can enhance their mood and improve their grades.
Elderly people
- Seniors who listen to music are usually happier and have better social interaction.
- Music can increase and maintain joint mobility, increase muscle strength, coordination, and cognitive abilities. It helps learning, increases attention, orientation and concentration.
- Music can improve memory, since when a person listens to music that corresponds with an important time, place, event or emotion for the listener, the medial prefrontal cortex becomes stimulated.
- Music can also help calm down elderly people when they become stressed.
Musicians
- Playing an instrument improves the connection between the brain’s hemispheres.
- Instrument training contributes to improving verbal memory.
- Musicians have a younger brain with better memory, including auditory, visual and tactile memory, than those who do not play music.
- Playing an instrument promotes better motor responses and it strengthens neuronal connections in brain regions related to motor skills.
- The act of playing music stimulates the cerebellum, which is the part of the brain responsible for attention and learning
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