If you are human, you probably listen to music and you most definitely like it. Happy, sad, depressed or angry, we have music for every mood.
They say music is food for the soul. It makes you feel a lot better about yourself and your life.
Everyone knows music make us smarter. So, today we bring you 7 interesting facts that you certainly don't know about music. Take a look:
#1. Songs You Can't Get Out Of Your Head are Earworms
Ever come across a song that you just couldn’t get out of your head? It happens to everybody. But, did you know that there is a word for these songs? It is 'earworms'! Trying to not think about a particular song, we end up thinking about it more. Psychologists suggest that if you happen to have a case of an earworm, play the song through and it might just escape your head. Another way to stop thinking about that one song is to start thinking about another song, the one you can bear, but it’s a vicious cycle.
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#2. Music Changes Your Perception
Everyone knows that music can affect the mood, but researchers have also found that listening to a particular kind of music, happy or sad, can even alter the way you perceive the world. For instance, if you listen to happy music, you are more likely to recognize happy faces, and same goes for the sad music.
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#3. Your Favorite Song is Your Favorite for a Reason
Scientists believe that the reason that we like some songs more than others is because we have an emotional event of our life associated with the music. Though we tend to change our favorite songs quite too often, our long-lasting preferences are because of an underlying association of those songs to emotional events.
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#4. Music Utilizes Your Entire Brain
When an MRI was conducted on subjects listening to music, it was observed in a study that music recruited auditory areas and activated a large network or neurons in the brain. Moreover, scientists also concluded that music activated the motor, emotional as well as those areas of the brain that spark creativity.
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#5. Music Changes Our Mind
Music alters more than just your mood and perception. Yes, it has the power to alter the structure of your brain. Our brain changes throughout our life and this ability of its is referred to as brain plasticity. A study revealed that musicians have higher cortex volume as compared to non-musicians.
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#6. Music Helps You Work-Out
Yes, this is something that you might know! Dissociation with an activity lowers the perception of effort. Listening to music in the gym diverts the mind from feeling fatigued and generates positive moods. Playing music during low to moderate workouts makes the session a pleasurable experience. Music triggers the release of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine; feel-good neurotransmitters that keep us relaxed and happy.
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#7. Plants and Animals Enjoy Music Too
They say music sees no boundaries. Scientists have explained how it doesn't see any breed. South Korean scientists carried out a study which concluded that plants grew more quickly when they were playing music, especially classical music, than compared to plants not played anything. Another research indicated that playing music to cows relaxed them and as a result, the cows produced more milk than before.
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While these were some facts we wanted to share with you, we would certainly love to hear if you know any interesting facts about music. Leave a comment below and do not forget to vote in the poll that we have for you.
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