Music, Music Lyrics, And Music Videos On Children And Youth

American Academy of Pediatrics, (2009, November). Impact of Music, Music Lyrics, and Music Videos on Children and Youth. Retrieved November 18, 2016, from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/124/5/1488

This authors of this article wrote with an interest in informing parents and pediatricians of the large impact that music, music videos, and song lyrics can have on the lives of their children and patients. They discussed a wide variety of the different aspects in the lives of youth that music and music media can influence. These include aspects such as behavior such as drug use and promiscuity, emotions, grades, and interactions. They also discuss research from a large number of studies that have been performed on the subject of the influence of music on actions. The idea that music can affect a listener so strongly relates directly to the effect of music on the brain, so it will be useful to argue the aspect of music impacting actions. Direct quotes and some paraphrasing will be used to convey this aspect to the reader and help to prove the point of the thesis.

Faßhauer, C. et al., (2015). Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing. BMC Neuroscience. Retrieved November 10, 2016.

The authors of this journal article were interested in the relationship between musical ability and cognitive processing as well as the event related potentials of both auditory and visual processing in the brain. To accomplish this, they did a study of 20 subjects, 10 who were musicians, and the other 10 were non-musicians. The results proved them right in the aspect that there is a correlation between musical ability and audio and visual event related potentials. This article will be useful to s...

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...ide a quick overview of how playing an instrument can benefit the brain. It starts out talking about how a musician may look calm and collected while performing, but fireworks are going off all over in their brain. It says that many studies have been performed involving MRI machines and active listening or playing of music. The results show that although many parts of a brain are active while listening, playing causes every part to light up. It also discusses how the corpus colossum, is enlarged and activity increased within, which allows messages to be sent easier between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This will be helpful to the research paper that is discussing how music affects the brain and what the many benefits of music playing are. A variety of quotes and scientific facts from this video will be used to support the argument of this paper.