That music can touch us, everyone knows. But music has much more impact on people. Has in recent years been much research into what exactly music does to us. It turns out that that’s a lot. Be smarter, socially just, be happier and perform better: all effects of music you can hear me, but what is here now where and why?
Music has many effects on the body. If we listen to music, a lot happens. Often there is a more focused and relaxed attitude of the brains. The man has some expectation of what is coming into the music. Even if this music is that you’ve never heard. If there is something different than you expect, it will be recorded in the brains.
Link to events
Music by people linked to periods or events. Probably everyone will recognize you to think back to a particular song to an event where you’ve heard that song. But it can also be a reminder of a period. Think of a song you’ve heard many a vacation. If you’re the song later listening, you think back to that period.
Healing effect
Music also has a kind of healing effect on people. Various studies have shown that restrained nerve and brain diseases or in part, can be restrained by music. Research by Mr. Kravkov has been shown that you can improve eyesight by 25 percent through music. Another example is that through music therapy chronic, sometimes severe can reduce debilitating pain in cancer patients. This according to a study from Stanford University in 2007. There is also a retrospective study of 23 clinical studies showing that music has a positive effect on blood pressure and heart and respiratory rate. This research was done with approximately 1,500 cardiac patients. This same study also found that the fear and pain decreased in heart patients.
All of these examples of healing through music are among other the stress hormone cortisol. If we listen to music, this stress hormone is released less so we can relax. Music activates the reward system in our brains, so we will feel better. This system is also active in e.g., good food. Through music, we are going to feel so good and relaxed. Therefore, music is often a good way to depression. Because music has so much influence on the brains, other body parts are also influenced by the nervous system, and we can heal with a relaxed attitude (in part).
Smarter with music? The Mozart effect!
There is also the so-called Mozart effect. That means that you smarter is listening to the music of classical composer Mozart. Smarter course you do not get, but it makes for a more relaxed and focused attitude of your brains. Listening to the music of Mozart can improve brain activity significantly. That was demonstrated in 1993 by US researchers. By preceding tests to hear a Mozart sonata, they were men or 8 to 9 points get scored higher on an IQ test. Mozart’s music is thus amply top. It is believed that the effect of Mozart’s music is similar to other classical composers. Important to mention is that it does not concern all the documents and the concentrated attitude of your brains is not permanent. It is temporary if you just listened to classical music. Just before a tough rehearsal now so here listening to Mozart’s music.
One reason to explain the Mozart effect is that listening to (some) classical music causes the heart rate, breathing and brain waves become balanced. This allows you to better use your brains and that leads to better performance. Here, the reason is also the same in that it does not in each piece of the case. Slower pieces have, for example, usually not have this effect.
A second reason is that the connection between the right and left brain improves when listening to complex music like that of Mozart. Simple music is received only by the right hemisphere. This connection is very important and plays a role as you make your music. How this works exactly is explained in the following section.
What if you make music?
Research also shows that music has a lot of influence on people who make music. When you make music, you are there at the same time doing all sorts of ways: you make moves to sound the music, you will see the sheet music for you and you hear your music. There have been several studies in children who make music and children who do not make music. In those studies, there are two equal groups of children taken. Both groups consist of children with an average IQ. After a few years of music lessons for one group shows that this group has a higher IQ. This is because people who are making music the left and right brain are better connected. The connection bar that the central link is growing between the left and right brain when you make music. This is very positive because the brains halves have different functions, and it is important that they work well together and are well coordinated.
Making music also ensures that teenagers better cope with their feelings. Making music can catch namely inner conflict and fluctuating moods. Again, this has to do with the larger connecting beam in the brains that has just been described.
Conclusion
So music has very positive effects on our body. The effects go much further than just relax. This is true for listening to music, but certainly for himself making music. Making music improves academic performance but also social and civic skills. Many scientists in this field, therefore, believe that music should be more intrigued in our educational system to contribute to the development of the future society.