Topic > The importance of music and the Mozart effect on the brain

Music is part of our daily lives. We listen to music during our special event, when we go to class, and while we shower. We listened to music as children and still enjoy this feeling of magical waves entering our brains. However, we don't know what exactly happens to our brain when these waves reach our nerves. We can't understand why we like one type of music and don't like another. We will be very surprised to know that music helps us in different fields of our academic journey. This is why scientists exist to show us how amazing the brain is. This research paper will cover past and present research done by scientists and experts in the field of the brain. VH1, a music channel for young people, also carried out a study that demonstrates the importance of music. The channel claims that music is important for building and strengthening connections between brain cells. It also improves memory and the ability to differentiate sounds and speech. (VH1,2013)Past research on the effects of music on the brain is called the Mozart effect. The Mozart effect refers to the claim that people perform better on spatial ability tests after listening to music composed by Mozart. This experiment examined whether the Mozart effect is the result of differences in stimulation and temperament. (William Forde Thompson, E. Glenn Schellenberg and Gabriela Husain, 2001). Research was carried out by Dr. Gordon Shaw of UCI and Fran Rauscher on this Mozart effect. The experiment consists of using university students who have listened to Mozart's symphonies while they are solving a spatio-temporal task. This task is famous: the paper folding and cutting test. The results were surprising. Indeed, all students recorded impressions...... in the center of the paper ...... which over a very long period influence the way in which the superior temporal gyrus is modeled. This particular area was about the type of music you listened to before. For example, if a person listens to rock music, he or she is more likely to like a certain piece of rock music rather than another type with which he or she has less experience. (Elizabeth Landau, 2013).The effect of music on the brain is a very interesting topic because it concerns the reaction of our body as human beings to the waves produced by music. In the past, researchers believed in the Mozart effect which had and has a huge place in this specific topic. So, the present shows us other benefits and roles that music plays in our brain without us realizing it. Finally, the unpredictable future advises us to have faith in this music and, moreover, to have faith in the entire world of art.