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Science has revealed that music activates the brain.

That's according to cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Levitin of McGill University in Canada.

Daniel Levitin: One of the things we’ve learned using neuroimaging and scanning technology is that music activates almost every region of the brain that we’ve mapped.

Levitin said the inner ear and the brain take vibrations from the eardrum and translate that into a representation of sound. He said different regions of the brain work simultaneously to extract information about musical sound, such as the pitch, rhythm, and tonal color. It's then all put together in higher brain regions that give us a sense of a complete musical work.

Daniel Levitin: So listening to music involves attentional systems and memory, frontal lobe regions that try to figure out what’s going to happen next. Interestingly, when you’re listening to music, your motor cortex is often activated, especially if the music has a beat. Even if you’re not moving, your motor cortex seems to be making preparatory movements as though you were going to dance.

In addition to being a neuroscientist, Levitin is also a musician, and recording engineer who's worked with Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton and others. His new book is called This is Your Brain on Music

Source: Reuters

See also:[*] Music May Help Schizophrenia[*] Music Activates Every Part of Your Brain[*] Brain Shown to Change, Heal, Through Thinking

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That's very interesting, I love science.