The Importance Of Music And The Mozart Effect On The Brain

Music is part of our daily life. We listen to music in our special event, when we are in our way to classes, and while we are taking our shower. We listened to music when we were kids, and we still enjoy this sensation of this magic waves that enter into our brains. However, we do not know what exactly happens to our brain when this waves attain our nerves. We cannot understand how we like a kind of music, and we dislike another one. We will be very surprised to know that music helps us in different field in our school road. This is why scientists exists to prove to us how amazing the brain is. This research paper will cover the past and the present researches made by scientists and experts in the brain field. Even VH1, a music channel for young did a study that proves the importance of music. The channel claims that music is important to builds and strengthens connections between brain cells. Besides it improves memory and the ability to differentiate sounds and speeches. ( VH1,2013)

The past research about the effect of music on the brain is called the Mozart Effect. The Mozart Effect refers to claims that people perform better on tests of spatial abilities after listening to music composed by Mozart. This experience examined whether the Mozart effect is a result of differences in stimulation and temper. (William Forde Thompson, E. Glenn Schellenberg and Gabriela Husain, 2001). A research was made by Dr.Gordon Shaw at UCI and Fran Rauscher about this Mozart effect. The experience is to use college students who listened to Mozart’s symphonies while they are solving a spatial temporal task. This task is a famous one: the paper folding and cutting test. The results were astonishing. In fact, all the students recorded impressi...

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...s to in a very long period influence how the superior temporal gyrus is moulded. This particular area involved the type of music that you used to hear before. For instance, if a person use to listen to rock music, he or she is more likely to like to appreciate a given piece of rock music rather than other type that he or she has less experience with it. ( Elizabeth Landau, 2013).

The effect of music on the brain is a very interesting topic because it deals with the reaction of our body as a human being to waves produced by music. In the past, researchers believe on the Mozart effect which had and have a huge place in this specific topic. Then, the present shows us another benefits and roles that music plays in our brain without our acknowledgement. Last, the future which is unpredictable advices us to trust this music and further, to trust the entire world of art.