Music's Deep Dive: The Emotional Elixir We've Overlooked - Neuroscience News
How do you want to feel?
The human brain is wired to respond to sound. Music adds meaning and dimension that is hard to capture with just text.
Elements such as pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, amplitude, scale, and tones, along with the graduated series of notes or intervals dividing octaves, have an affective, emotional, psychological, cognitive, an
... See moreBut for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.”
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: “We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music,