Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The groove that flows
Coincidentally, as the Ninth Annual Festival for music cognition just ended on August 24th, the mindhacks website has a nice link to a story about how your brain responds to music.
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/08/cognitive_neuroscien.html
I love the research and how it educates different parts of the brain. But I would argue that music is percieved different by each individual and we grab onto different frameworks. In the New Conventions of Behavior Project - the sounds start to explore what happens when we listen to music that we just don't quite understand. It doesn't go deep into the Neuroscience of it all, but asks the question - when presented with a music/sound we can't comprehend - what part of the brain is responsible for dealing with this? Is the creation of new neural pathways something that is generally enjoyed by people? And how can we change the way our brain reacts to different types of music?
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/08/cognitive_neuroscien.html
I love the research and how it educates different parts of the brain. But I would argue that music is percieved different by each individual and we grab onto different frameworks. In the New Conventions of Behavior Project - the sounds start to explore what happens when we listen to music that we just don't quite understand. It doesn't go deep into the Neuroscience of it all, but asks the question - when presented with a music/sound we can't comprehend - what part of the brain is responsible for dealing with this? Is the creation of new neural pathways something that is generally enjoyed by people? And how can we change the way our brain reacts to different types of music?
