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The neuroscience of music is the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes underlying music. These behaviours include music listening , performing , composing , reading, writing, and ancillary activities.
To ward off dementia, older adults may want to spend more time reading, praying, crafting, listening to music and engaging in other mentally stimulating behaviors, a new study says.
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007.
Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as brainwave synchronization or neural entrainment, refers to the observation that brainwaves (large-scale electrical oscillations in the brain) will naturally synchronize to the rhythm of periodic external stimuli, such as flickering lights, [1] speech, [2] music, [3] or tactile stimuli.
Ryan Glatt, CPT, NBC-HWC, senior brain health coach and director of the FitBrain Program at Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, CA, also points out that the findings are observational ...
However, other professions that require skilled navigation, like bus drivers (3.11%) or pilots (4.57%), did not show a significantly different rate of Alzheimer's disease-related death.
Young@Heart, a chorus of twenty-four senior citizens with an average age of eighty, is directed by the genial, but demanding, Bob Cilman. In preparation for a concert in their hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts, and their next European tour, they spend seven weeks learning new songs by the likes of Sonic Youth, James Brown, Allen Toussaint, Coldplay, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, and Prince ...
Here's just a smattering of senior-friendly tools they offer, all just a voice command away: Play music and live-streaming radio. Create a shopping list. Remind you to take medicine or keep an ...