17 July 2016
In an effort to write about the regions of the brain that were affected by sound, I found that the topic is far too complicated and would take up too many words. The cap of 1000 words means I cannot include this in the final essay.
Here is what I wrote so far before scrapping the idea:
Here is what I wrote so far before scrapping the idea:
Neuroscience
Everyone’s brain is different; hence the reason for varying changes in times between individuals. My approach in determining whether music has an improvement on mental performance could, however, be inaccurate. This study is different to many other studies. For example; the use of only one genre of music, and only simple addition problems can lead to different outcomes and results. In essence, it should mostly come to fairly similar conclusions to other studies.
The principal parts of the brain associated with music tie together with hearing abilities and motor control. Unfortunately, relating back to my experiment, the volume of the music played was not controlled, so results could have been affected by this.
Above shows an image of the regions affected by music in the brain. The brain scan is from ‘Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC)’ and the annotations were produced by the authors of ‘Psychology of Music’. Please see references 4 and 5.
The area associated with hearing is the superior temporal lobe and the areas associated with motor control are the caudal lobe, ventral frontal lobe, and the cerebellum.
4 | Brain image scans produced in collaboration with Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center | Robert Zivadinov M.D. Ph.D., Jennifer L. Cox Ph.D. | www.bnac.net | 17 July 2016
5 | Psychology of Music | Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Rom Harré | 978-1-84169-868-7 | Page 57
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