power of music
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THE POWER OF MUSIC
By:
Laura Falcón
Cornelia Silva
Introduction Human evolution Music and Brain Benefits of music Conclussions
-Reason of the power that music has
-Video tu sum up
-Relax experience
THE POWER OF MUSICINDEX
THE POWER OF MUSIC INTRODUCTION
We have chosen to speak about this topic
because we both love music.
Everybody loves music... but why?
And everybody listen to music everyday… but what can we use music for?
THE POWER OF MUSIC INTRODUCTION
So, we have also questioned… Why is Music so… Pleasurable and
Useful
… in our daily lives?
THE POWER OF MUSIC WHAT'S MUSIC?
Music is the art of combine in a sthetic way
both sounds and silences.
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THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
Music has got biological roots =
Music activates Pleasure and Reward-related
Regions of the Brain.
THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
Humans find a lot of things pleasurable.
This is necessary, because if you don’t find something pleasurable,
you don’t Do it.
That’s why you find pleasurable things like Eating and Sex: they’re necessary to survive.
Food and Sex are natural pleasures, because they’re primary necessities.
THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
What about Music? Because it’s not a neccesity, though it’s really
pleasurable!
Our physical responses to music are similar than our responses to other necessary things.
Our brains have an Specialized and Ancient Reward Circuitry
that allows us to enjoy Music.
THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
• Music must be linked to some sort of evolutionary adaptation that helped our ancestors (hunting, social bonding…)
• First bone flute known dates back 40.000-80.000 years ago (Homo Neardenthalensis)
• Experts assume that people were probably singing before they invented musical instruments.
THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
When you need to feel pleasure in something you’re doing, enter your DOPAMINE SYSTEM.
THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
So Dopamine is important for natural rewards like
food and sex…, for artificial substances like drugs,
… and for Music!
Scientific researches have shown that Music can produce a nice increase in
Dopamine.
Drugs like cocaine produce increases in Dopamine of up to 300%.
THE POWER OF MUSIC HUMAN EVOLUTION
Was intense pleasure when listening to music in the same category?
Probably not. But Music can produce a significant increase in Dopamine which make us
Feel Good.
WHY have be evolved such that music effects us this way?
+What is the function?
THE POWER OF MUSICBENEFITS OF MUSIC
Music help kids to remember basic facts.
Ex: Sesame Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML8IL77gQ3k
Not only kids, adults too Ex: Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the
world http://www.ted.com/talksl/mallika_sarabhai.html
THE POWER OF MUSICBENEFITS OF MUSIC
o People are more likely to cooperate with each other in nonmusical tasks than if they’re not in synch.Ex: Ritual Music of Tibetan Buddhism (bond, emotions, message, atmosphere) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBSTAw_cKY
Music can help people that have serious neurological diseases as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Dementia.
Ex: http://www.dw.de/researchers-prescribe-choir-rehearsals-for-parkinsons-patients/a-14805900
THE POWER OF MUSICBENEFITS OF MUSIC
Music alters mood. Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Nye9TUqA0 Personal examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZIMxVZNos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZDw0uu6UO0
Playing music is a way to convey feelings. Ex:
http://brucespringsteen.net/news/2013/bruces-speech-from-musicares-2013
THE POWER OF MUSIC CONCLUSSIONS
HUMAN EVOLUTIONWhy human beings are able to enjoy music? Dopamine System is the culprit.
BENEFITSWhy is music so useful?Memories, learning, cooperation, neurological
diseases, mood, feelings.
Is there anything clearer after this presentation? We hope so…
THE POWER OF MUSIC TO SUM UP
Video “The Scientific Power of Music”.
The Scientific Power of Music.wmv
THE POWER OF MUSIC TO MAKE YOU FEEL RELAX
Close your eyes and enjoy it. Let's see if this piece of music make you feelbetter.
THE POWER OF MUSIC
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.