Monday, August 15, 2011

Music, emotion and brain…

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Love for and appreciation of music is a universal feature of human culture. It has been theorized that music even predates language. There is no question that music has grown to be an important part of human life. But there are lots of studies conducted if music affects the emotional being of a human. Consequently, the conclusion is still uncertain and open to discussion.
I think, music really influence our psychological and emotional beings for the reason that: 1) There are times that you feel stressed and in order to ease that feeling all you have to do is to listen to a soft music. In that way, you will put out of your mind all the bad circumstances that had happened to you. 2) There are times that music was used in order to arouse you. In an instance, a man felt asleep while driving because he doesn’t listen to a rock or hard music instead he listens to a soft melody that leads him to sleep. 3) The listener relates to the message of the music and in that way, he/she felt not alone.
The tremendous ability that music has to affect and manipulate emotions and the brain is undeniable, and yet largely inexplicable. Very little serious research had gone into the mechanism behind music's ability to physically influence the brain until relatively recently, and even now very little is known about the neurological effects of music.

1 comment:

  1. one thing i know about music is that some genre makes me think brilliantly...some irritates my ears =)))))))))))))))))))

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