Effects of Indian classical music on human mind &

behavior

By Suman SarkarStudents id-131001701017MSc. In Biotechnology (partII)Techno India University

What is music?

Music is the art of sound in time, expressing ideas and emotions in significant forms through the

elements of melody, harmony and color. Tones or sounds occurring either in in a single line (i.e.,

melody) or in multiple lines (i.e., harmony) and the feeling of movement of sound in time (i.e., rhythm)

are the essential elements of music.

Process of hearing

• At very first sound enters ears & travel along ear canal.

• It sets off a wave of vibrations from your eardrum to the snail-shaped cochlea in your inner ear

• These vibrations stimulate sensory hair cells in your cochlea

• This generates a nerve impulse which travels along your cochlear nerve to your brain

• The temporal lobe processes the sound

Process of hearing

Sound ear ear canal sets off wave of

vibration from

Eardrum

Cochlea in inner ear

Generates nerve impulse vibration stimulate sensory hair cells

Brain cochlear nerve

Process of hearing

How brain response to music?

• Right hemisphere of brain• Activated when you hear melodies with a variety of pitch and

timbre• It also “lights up” when people play music by ear. • Left hemisphere of brain• “Lights Up” when you learn to read music, understands key

signature and notation, and follows the sequence of notes.• Significantly, the brain is activated in the same area that is

involved in analytical and mathematical thinking. • So you can simultaneously stimulate the right and left

hemispheres of the brain by playing an instrument or by singing.

Today’s Music technology •use of electronic devices and computer software.

•tiny I-pods to high voltage rock performances, every human being is accompanied by music anytime and anywhere. “Music energizes mood,” “music is a great stress buster,” “music drives away blues,” “music soothes souls”.•There is various genre of music in this world but classical music is the soul of every music .

What is classical music?

• Its creates a great affects on human brain and also create a positive effects on human hormonal system that’s why people feel relax due to the classical music.

• classical music (mainly Indian classical – ragas which is called the core of Hindustani classical) is characterized by own particular mood. The acknowledged order of sentiments or moods is as follows: romantic, erotic, humorous, pathetic, anger, heroic, fearful, disgust, amazement and peaceful.

Continued………….

• The each classic, in addition to being associated with particular mood is also closely connected to a particular time of a day or a season of a day. Which can resonate the specific part of the brain, cause of the particular mood.

What are emotions?

What are emotions?

• Emotions seem to rule our daily lives. We make decisions based on whether we are happy, angry, sad, bored, or frustrated. We choose activities and hobbies based on the emotions they incite.

What are emotions?

What are emotions?

• Emotion associated with motivation– Positive – things are going well, keep doing what

you are doing– Negative – something wrong, change behavior

• Related with goals– Positive – succeeding toward/accomplishing goals– Negative – something is interfering/blocking goals

How music effect on emotion?

• The Limbic System is so powerful that emotions can change how you think.

• Music can aid in the production of serotonin, which can make you happy!

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter involved in the transmission of nerve impulses that helps maintaining joyous feelings

Effect of classical music

• Enhances spatial IQ by increasing short and long term memory

• Increases cognitive skills in children

Music therapy

• Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• The phenomenon that is able to generate tension can also assist in reducing it.

• An underlying assumption is that everyone is endowed with a basic musicality.

• Music as a medium for emotional expression may help patients to improve their expressive range and diminish affective flattening. Music may be used as a safe and socially acceptable form in which they can express feelings with ease.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Making music together is always a social endeavor, inherently connected to forming and building social relationships and may therefore help patients to overcome social deficits ease.

• Making music is in itself motivating, hence work well in those who otherwise have little or no motivation.

• Lack of pleasure and meaningfulness in life associated with psychiatric disorders are made to overcome through esthetic experience inherent to music therapy.

Our thought

• human emotion work in a different way in each and every situation,

• Our work is mainly on this human mood or emotion. We are working on Facial Action Coding System by which we can measure the emotion levels of different humans by code the facial changes of patients(by capturing in camera ) during music listening process.

3 days of interview sessions

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