This is your brain on music

[MayraMacabre]

What song was this? >_<

[finethenluke500]

my brain tingled all over

[crazyaphla]

i had a headake and now its gone

[MelnDyl2010]

so which part of my brain flares off and hurts when i hear justin beiber music

[lizichell2]

@MelnDyl2010 ALL

[Elizabetsweetheart]

this is very intresting

[Hardrock4]

l swear l could feel it ... :D

[Only4uBabyxo]

huh..?

[Arkangel630]

worst to top comments ever, how stupid can you be to not understand something so simple.

[BIAXlD3NT]

@Arkangel630 o rlly? can you explain how your brain works? and what those red marks are? and dont say "activity" excuse me.. unless your know your shit. you should probably shut up. you and those 9 people. my ass, if you know it.

[iAreRobb]

This 20-second clip of a subject's fMRI illustrates how cognitive activity increases in anticipation of the transition points between movements.

[golatificon]

music

[golatificon]

Stanford researchers show how your brain processes pauses and changes in

[ayoopdog]

if you lazy fucks would read the description maybe you would learn something.

[stylusfantasticus]

THANKS FOR EXPLAINING NOTHING.

[pavol1980]

its your brain and mine and everyones

[friendulums]

Gripping...

[rharold]

who else screamed 'BLAST-OFF!!' when the timer hit zero?

[Mou1Di]

i will kill myself if SOMEBODY understand a thing thumbs up if u agree :/

[w1ckedsh1t]

does this mean im gonna die

[inewton34]

@w1ckedsh1t you'll gonna be stupid to genius..

[SuperSparta22]

i lost my brain. so i dont need this thx :D

[mrusername09]

and when you listen to pantera your brain sends you a signal to start headbanging! \m/

[jaycievoorhees]

@timeshhift

Only some elements of music are processed on the right side, these include harmony, melody, and timbre. The left side is very active as well during music processing and is responsible for integrating information on rhythm, lyrics, and other structural elements of music. It has been said that music "lights up your brain like a Christmas tree!" It stimulates whole brain processing and is not as cut and dry as most people think.

[Stormdude100]

What's the name of this piece?

[spacemonks]

so when i listen music i dont have brain activity and when i dont listen to music i have , wtf . i dont get a video

[theanonymous118]

you serious

[MattExzy]

@visual1122 Best genre of electronic music.. wow..

[GummyBrains]

Its like trying to understand politics

[grimslider75]

@GummyBrains

this is much clearer actually

[lovlyanime]

I dont understand what the red markings indicate... Can someone please explain?

[scuzzulus]

@lovlyanime the red markings just indicate oxygen consumption. fMRI (the scan used in the video) picks up increased concentrations of oxygenated haemoglobin, which rushes to whatever area the brain is using for the specific task.

[Fruscianteistheman]

@visual1122

Not only have I listened to pretty much every dubstep song out there, I've studied the effects of music on the brain for close to 12 years now. The "math" you are probably referring to is just resynchronized sequences harmonies found in pretty much any song.

dubstep is so deep and bass oriented that all the math that would go into hearing the subtleties in the harmonies is diminished to null value because the human ear can not perceive intervals below a certain threshold.

[TheMasterSlasher]

@Fruscianteistheman, so dubstep will have a negative effect on the brain?

[helibbc]

why did the majority like this mysterious video??

[CORNP00]

so what do you rekon happens when you listen to dubstep? im sure it must do something to the brain in some way or another

[kewell01]

The video shows how the brain becomes cognitively active during pauses in the music. The -1 -2 etc. are just seconds..when it reaches 0, peak brain activity occurs..which is during a short period of silence between musical movements—the brain anticpating and sorting out musical events.

[CORNP00]

so if u listen to lots of dubstep, your brain will be all "red"

[Fruscianteistheman]

@CORNP00

if you listen to lots of dubstep, your brain will be completely inactive because their is no melodic motion in the music. In classical music, the chords create tendencies and forward motion that subconsciously get your brain asking itself (what will come next?)

the lack of clearly defined chords/patterns the music doesn't really create forward motion in the harmonies.

[MrSyCoe]

It appears that the right-half brain performs more processing on the music than the left. I would assume then that the only reson for the corresponding left brain activity is due to the corpus callosium?

[sarabeth1410]

@MrSyCoe interesting I would assume the same?

[samkomako]

if you play this "rap" backwards, in chorus "gotta catch them all, gotta catch them all, Yeah!" you can clearly listen as they sing "love satan, love satan".

[AkainuAokiji]

my brain is dead !!but my penis is an animal ...so i think with my penis only sex ..is it serious?

[Nate15b]

i was listening to some kind of death metal once when i was high and my brain felt like it has liquid bleeding in it

[SolarFlare42]

That is an interesting article you linked to. Thanks for posting.

[1Heretic]

I guess is the the left hemisphere and the right on display

[0870003343]

your brain has periods?

[LaLaLaSmiles]

@0870003343 Ireguallar ones

[Chuichupachichi]

Listening to music makes your brain bleed profusely???

[Tommydudez]

not bleed..but activation in a certain region of it.i am researching how the music positively affects the brain now.if u have any ans,plz let me know thanks.

[xxfuturerevealedxx]

@Chuichupachichi

Wait what do you mean by that?

So do scientists hypothesize that music has an overall negative effect on the brain?

[boariggy]

that is the perfect cadence being used and our brain's reaction to it.

[BIGLIPLEROY]

makes perfect sense. im reading the book on this

[SIKM4N]

huh????

:S

[TheScreamingRetard]

its like i can feel the music changing my mind. never never really thought of the neurological stuff only the emotion.. cool

[abcwritestartread]

Music activates parts of the brain which otherwise would not be activated. This is a very important fact and ought to be translated into the classroom. I personally use Sing, Spell, Read & Write and Musical Math facts in the classroom and see that my students learn quickly with music and movement.

[DavidTheSilencer]

@abcwritestartread and marijuana once a week

[Virginityrocks]

I don't really have any appreciation for music. I'd like to see how little my brain actually processes music.

[poet418]

Whose brain reacts in this manner? I'd be willing to bet my brain reacts differently, at least slightly, than yours, whoever you are.

[milosjanata]

It probably means that brain reacts more at pause [which is in time0] than music?

[vdub350]

Maybe because of the anticipation on what will happen next?

[milosjanata]

Yes, that could the reason:)

[samblero]

i dont understand the video....

[acbulgin2]

I guess just different levels of activation of different areas of the brain when stimulated by music with respect to time, looks like secs. Why they do the space shuttle launch thing is anyone's guess, T -4 secs, -3 secs, -2 secs, -1 sec, liftoff, + 1 sec, + 2 secs, + 3 secs &c.

[patrickbenjy1]

you know, if you say secs, it sounds like sex

[richardmiles2470]

lol

[Superman575575]

@samblero It appears to cause activity in the prefontal cortex - do a little research if you want to understand it and retain the information.

[tavita2345]

what is the -1, -2 etc??

[acbulgin2]

Not sure, but it might refer to different levels of activation at a particular time. It seems the negative integer values take you up to the end of one movement of a piece of music, then the positive values mark the beginning and continuation of the 2nd movement. Kind of like a space shuttle or Apollo 11 launch...all the time leading up to the launch is "T -10 secs, -9 secs, -8 secs., -7 secs, -6 secs, -5 secs, -4 secs, ignition, -3 secs, -2 secs, -1 secs, liftoff, T + 1 sec, +2 secs, + 3 &c.

[AndryusPlanutis]

@tavita2345 That's the time in seconds to the transition point between two movements in a symphony. Notice that there is a huge jump in activity at that point. Go to the link in the description for more info.

[krzemianpl]

@tavita2345 " This 20-second clip of a subject's fMRI illustrates how cognitive activity increases in anticipation of the transition points between movements." it seems you just stop thinking when listening to music

[popcornkernal59]

@tavita2345 bc classical music is negative ....

[bluefish192]

@tavita2345 its the countdown to a specific climax in the piece that they were using as the recognition point in the study. They were looking at how the brain reacted to well known pieces, and found trace amounts of dopamine released as early as 15 seconds before the climax.

[XxazmariaxX]

@bluefish192 ... huh?

[MilleandMolly]

where did you get the music from?

[Creationismsucks]

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By the way, have you read that great book of this title?

[jordonbenson]

great book!

[ChristianDavis629]

Yeah! Good book!

[Tinna9Truliani]

spellingsociety dot org

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[pstt1lol]

Awsome!!!! Very interesting! Keep up the great research!!

[jsibelius44]

way cool!