There aren’t many things that can stimulate the brain like music. Playing or listening to music is a terrific technique if you want to keep your brain active as you age. It gives the brain a complete workout. Researchers are attempting to comprehend how our brains hear and produce music. Vibrations from a sound system somehow find their way into the ear canal after traveling through the atmosphere. These eardrum-tickling vibrations are converted into an electrical signal by the auditory nerve, which then goes to the brain stem where it is reconstructed into what we experience as music. Numerous jazz musicians and rappers were asked to improvise music while laying down inside an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine for Johns Hopkins researchers to observe and note which parts of their brains lit up. Architecture, mathematics, and structure all apply to music. Its foundation is the connections between notes. Your brain has to perform a lot of computations to make sense of it, even if you might not be aware of it. Experts advise paying attention to what your children or grandchildren are into. We frequently stick to the same music genres and songs that we did in our teens and early 20s, and we generally avoid hearing anything that isn’t from that time period. Old music doesn’t mentally tax the brain in the same way as new music does. Although it might not first be enjoyable, the brain has to work hard to process the new sound because of the unfamiliarity.
