Comments on: Brains Hardwired By Music? http://www.traumaticbraininjurycenters.com/2009/08/brains-hardwired-by-music/ Function, Education and Research Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jo Kirkpatrick http://www.traumaticbraininjurycenters.com/2009/08/brains-hardwired-by-music/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jo Kirkpatrick Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:11:51 +0000 http://empower2go.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-30 I thought Amy had 'lost it' when she first suggested this study 3 years ago. I knew very little about musical entrainment, except for what I had read online, which seemed a bit far fetched. How could listening to music affect the brain. Why is the world not run by chamber musicians? I had asked. I have since come to realise that Amy never loses it and 'The Mozart Effect' as it is known, is now a well documented phenomenon. In spite of the original results not quite reaching scientific significance, there was an across the board decrease in reaction time that was still fairly convincing. The results clearly indicated that if we had given the participants more time training; or if we had used a more sensitive measure, the results would have been far more strongly defined. Amy has since begun plans to explore this and other possibilities that can also stimulate cognitive activity and improve brain function. She is not only researching the potential of music but of many other things, like computer games, learning, as well as new treatments and drugs. I thought Amy had ‘lost it’ when she first suggested this study 3 years ago. I knew very little about musical entrainment, except for what I had read online, which seemed a bit far fetched. How could listening to music affect the brain. Why is the world not run by chamber musicians? I had asked. I have since come to realise that Amy never loses it and ‘The Mozart Effect’ as it is known, is now a well documented phenomenon. In spite of the original results not quite reaching scientific significance, there was an across the board decrease in reaction time that was still fairly convincing.

The results clearly indicated that if we had given the participants more time training; or if we had used a more sensitive measure, the results would have been far more strongly defined. Amy has since begun plans to explore this and other possibilities that can also stimulate cognitive activity and improve brain function. She is not only researching the potential of music but of many other things, like computer games, learning, as well as new treatments and drugs.

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