MUSI20150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clive Wearing, Temporal Lobe, Neuroplasticity
2 Aug 2018
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Music is a whole nervous system activity: music activates all parts of the brain. It is difficult to lose the ability to listening to music/ play music. Music listening and your brain fmril music listening activates widespread: music mapping brain area, red = high activation, blue activation, listening to tango. high pitch - red, rich musical genre, activate large cognitive motor area. Bran correlates of music evoked emotions: crucial for emotion, hypothalamus, limbic system. Music and expectations: how brains allow anticipation, brain has learnt this trick because of anticipation, to form relationship/soscial. Chills correlate with reward circuit activity: wide range of emotional, pleasurable, similar effect as drug/ favourite food, as intensity of chill increase, blood flow increase in brain region (reward, arrousal) Musical memory: unlimited capacity, some music sticks too well in our memory . Power of musical memory: cines wut g iwb structure (harmony, rhythm, melody, remember scale, octves .
