How Music Influence us

Highly emotional music causes networks in the brain to release dopamine. This brain chemical, a type of neurotransmitter, plays a role in feelings of pleasure. It also turns on the brain’s motor network. And that makes us want to move, explains Olivia Brancatisano. She is a stroke and aging researcher at Monash University in Melbourne,…

Why Music Is An Art

Music is an art that, in one guise or another, permeates every human society. Modern music is heard in a bewildering profusion of styles, many of them contemporary, others engendered in past eras. Music is a protean art; it lends itself easily to alliances with words, as in song, and with physical movement, as in…