How music changes our brains

"Healing at the Speed of Sound,"As you write about in the book, there's been a growing consensus in the last few years that sound can have some very strong effects on our overall health.But as you point out in the book, the scientific community is increasingly interested in looking at the ways music can affect our brains.�What was surprising to me was, as you point out in the book, fast-paced music actually has real effects on your ability to work out. In one 2009 study you cite in the book, college students biked faster or slower depending on what kind of music they were listening to -- and it made it easier for them to push themselves.�From a neurological perspective, why is it important to listen to and play music from an early age?What about learning disabilities?What about the elderly?Our lives are also much more deeply enmeshed in music these days. Now that music players are so portable, it feels weird to leave the house without listening to something on my headphones.�Right, and conversely we don't have as much access to silence.I also find that, now that listening to vast quantities of music is so easy, I get impatient 30 seconds into a song and skip forward to the next one for no real reason.�

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Source: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/how_music_warps_our_minds/

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