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Parts of The Brain Affected by Music

[The brain] has control of the [central nervous system.] It controls behavior, emotions, senses, and empathy. The human brains is a complex organ providing us with the ability to keep memories, learn tasks, adapt to the environment, solve problems, express feelings, and many more. The brain is sensitive to music; music triggers a part of the brain to function and send signals through nerves to other parts of the brain. The brain also triggers movements in muscles, bones and controlling the anatomical rhythm (our natural flows of movements from breathing to your heart beat.) The brain has two sides: The right and the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere gives signals to the left hemisphere and vice versa. Music activates creativity on the right hemisphere of the brain and logic activated on the left hemisphere.

[Music] is a form of art expressed through songs. Music is listened to in various tones, pitches, and sounds. An instrument creates music through keys and pitches. Music needs rhythm and a melody to have a good quality sound. Music triggers impulses in the three [auditory cortices]: primary (tone), secondary (rhythm, melody, and pattern) and tertiary cortices (makes one whole sound). These three auditory cortices identify music from the ear. In order to listen to music you have to have these cortices. Music helps with [Alzheimer’s] and [Parkisin’s] disease. A lot of people suffer from depression and anxiety, music has helped people overcome speech problems and personal problems such as grieving. Music can help people to connect with other people like [Annie], she suffered from high anxiety and depression because of a car crash.

A part is a piece: not whole. A piece of pie, pizza, and a piece of cheese. A piece is something needed to complete another object, like a piece to a puzzle. A piece of music can be a notes like A, B, C, and C-Sharp. A piece of the brain is the right hemisphere which holds a group of auditory cortices.

If something has an affect it has emotion. When something affects you, you show affection. Affect causes the brain to trigger feelings. Music affects the brain and the brain may trigger emotion. Affection is a personal meaning to something. People have different affects on different types of music..

Auditory Cortices

Tone Sensitive

Rhythm

Memory

Linguistic and Pitch

Auditory Cortices The auditory cortices’ sends music from the ear to the brain. Music has to travel from the source to the ear passed through three auditory cortices. The auditory cortices are parts of the inner ear that tells the brain what to do with the sounds of the music traveling into it. The auditory cortices control how the music flows into the ear and its sends music from the ear to the brain. Music has to travel from the source to the ear passed through three auditory cortices. Each of the three cortices has a specific need or purpose. If one were to be missing no one knows how the world will sound like. The primary cortex identifies amplitude. [Amplitude] recognizes how loud or low the music is playing. Some people like their music loud like at clubs and house party and some people like it low like at a office building or in the car. The right auditory cortex is bigger than the left and the right side of the brain is the creative side and music has its own unique affect on the brain that it triggers more parts of the brain. The secondary cortex responds to melody, harmony, and patterns. The tertiary cortex puts all the music together in one piece to give a whole different sound. The primary cortices cortex identifies how loud the music is and the pitch. People get different affects when music is played loud. The primary cortex gives you the ability to identify loud sounds and low sounds. This cortex also has the ability to recognize pitch. On a keyboard the highest pitch point is on the far right side and the lowest pitch point is on the far left side. The primary cortex gives the ability to know the difference. The secondary cortex identifies harmony, melody, and pattern. A melody should have a nice smooth pattern to come in a harmony.

The tertiary cortex combines volume, pitch, melody, harmony and pattern to make a whole sound.

Tone Sensitive

The brain is tone sensitive. The brain can identify different types of tones like speech tone which is telling the difference between a question and a command. Music tone makes it sound different to each person. Tones may trigger emotions in the brain. You can change someone’s view of a word through tone of voice. For instance let’s say someone asked for a ball; they would ask with a questionable tone, and telling someone to watch for the ball would be said with a cautious tone. Tone of music is how the music is expressed. An example is girly tone, club tone and cruising tone. The medical prefrontal cortex, cerebellum, the superior temporal sulci of both hemisphere, superior temporal gyri and the posterior cingulate cortex all parts of the brain sensitive to tone.

Memories [Memories] are stored bits of information gathered from prior experiences. There are factual memories and skilled memories. Factual memories are specific bits of information and skilled memories are learned behaviors. Memories are classified by the duration. Short-term memories do not last long and are usually for things such as remembering a person’s name or a grocery list. Long-term memories can last up to a life time. It is possible to convert a short-term memory into a long-term by what is called memory consolidation. Long-terms memories are stored in the cerebral cortex. Each memory can be stored in a different area of the brain. Visual memories are stored in the visual area of the brain The melody of a song can cue memories. Music has the ability to increase the capacity of memories stored like word memory. If music is learned from a young age the child will be more mentally developed.

Rhythm [Rhythm] is the movement or procedure with uniform or pattern recurrence of a beat or accent. Rhythm is also the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats. Rhythm is a key component of music and life. Our bodies contain an internal rhythm. The internal rhythm controls the heart rate and blood flow. Linguistic and Pitch Linguistic processing has generally been attributed to the left side of the brain. The left part of the brain contains the musical ability, linguistic ability and word memory. A study done by Chan proved that students with musical ability can remember more words at a time. Musicians have a more developed left planum temporales than an average person who does not play or sing. Pitches are perceived by the ear and are also called keys. Pitches can be harmonious and pleasurable. Pitch combinations are called chords. Our small membrane called the basilar membrane is located in our ears and that is how we can recognize keys or pitches. This membrane responds and sends a signal to auditory cortex in the brain. That signal then breaks into more sections recognizing different pitches, like a high pitch or a low pitch. The organization of the sections varies with the different pitches and is not very stable and can change over periods of time.