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1. Music & The Brain

2. The Purpose of This? I am here to educate the students on how greatly music affects peoples’ lives, a little more in depth than just listening to it to be happy.

3. Personal Relevance Simply, everyone listens to music. One can’t go a day without coming in contact with music This topic is important to me because music is a very special thing in my life It helps me get through hard times

4. Tony Cicoria 42 years of age Orthopedic Surgeon Very little musical experience Struck by lightning Musical intervention occurs

5. Salimah M. Chemist Early 40’s “Periods” lasting a minute or two Large tumor in her right temporal lobe Surgery may cause ‘personality changes’

6. Woman remains nameless Intractable temporal lobe seizures with right temporal lobe focus Brought under control by the drug LTG Before the drugs, she was never really into music Often found it annoying, and did her best to separate herself from it

7. A Little Extra Something Albert Einstein, regarded as one of the smartest men to ever live Was bought a Violin at a young age Improvising on his Violin helped him with his equations Einstein himself says Violin is why he was so smart

8. Body Responses to Music Can be easily detected in the body Music from the Baroque period is found to slow heart rate and decrease blood pressure, enhancing the ability to learn It also affects the amplitude & frequency of brain waves, as measured by an electro-encephalogram Electrical resistance of the skin becomes greater, and pupils can dilate

9. Music on Memory & Learning 60 BPM music activate the left and right hemispheres of the brain The brain is most efficient when both halves are being used When they are both being used, according to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, potential to learn increases a minimum of 5 times

10. George Lozanov Bulgarian Psychologist Designed a special way to teach a foreign language Used slow (60 BPM) Baroque period music Taught up to ½ vocab&phrases in 1 day 92% retention rate Learned with 85-100% efficiency using Baroque music

11. Test Taking 3 groups of people took identical tests Group 1 was read the words with music and was asked to imagine the words Group 2 had the same music, but wasn’t asked to imagine the words Group 3 had no music, and wasn’t asked to imagine the words

12. Test Taking Cont’d The same test was taken a week later, and group 1 did much better than groups 2&3 Music doesn’t absolutely allow one to recall but can improve it Information is recalled with the music that was being played when the information was being given

13. King George I of England Problems with memory loss and stress management George observed that King Saul from the bible had similar problems, and solved them with special music So, King George asked George Frederick Handel to write him special music, which was called “Water Music”

14. Same & Different Brain works by looking at difference pieces repetition Done in Baroque/Classical music by repeating a theme no more than once Any more, the mind goes into a sub-conscience state or anger “The human mind shuts down after three or four repetitions of a rhythm, or a melody, or a harmonic progression.”- Dr. Ballam

15. Muscle Strength and Music All muscles go weak when subjected to the “stopped anapestic beat” of hard rock “Switching of the brain.”- Dr. Diamond Actual symmetry between both of the cerebral hemispheres is destroyed, causing all sorts of problems, such as a weaker work performance, learning and behavior problems in children