Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
neuroscientists monitored guitarists playing a short melody together,13 they found that patterns in the guitarists’ brain activity became synchronized. Similarly, studies of choir singers have shown that singing aligns performers’ heart rates.14 Music seems to create a sense of unity on a physiological level.
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experimenter regularly ramped up both the speed and incline. Most people get winded by minute six and give up within eight. When accompanied by music, however, patients soldiered on for an average of fifty-one seconds longer. That’s almost a full minute at their highest level of effort. A cardiovascular stress test is the gold standard for determin
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