In the year of 1991, the fMRI was created and it was a revolutionary device that allowed us to safely look at the brain's activity. Now nearly twenty years later, this same revolutionary device is being used once again to study the brains activity while music is being played .When Daniel Abrams started his fMRI project on the brain, the results that he found were fascinating. Four patients of all different woks of life, had fMRI’s done on their brains and amazingly, even though they weren't moving parts of their brains, that control movement, planning, attention and memory.
Going into this project I obviously knew a few basic things about how music affects the brain such as releasing dopamine and triggering the brain’s pleasure reward
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I feel like researching these couple of things because when i listen to music i feel like time flies incredibly quickly. I also noticed that after i listened to a certain song i would feel particularly happy, or feel really relaxed. This really made me confused, but in a good way because it tempted me to chase after something that might become my profession one day.
How music affects the brain is a very important topic to me because I feel that I can ride its general idea into college as my major and maybe make it my career. Neuroscience is a profession that I feel will be very enjoyable and keep me occupied throughout my life time, in an undiscovered world of the brain.
During my research sessions I found that a lot of my sites were either incredibly helpful or the same topics I have already written down. How music affects the brain is a very specific topic that I feel has already been researched to the brim. Many of the sites I feel would have been helpful if they weren't all the same material as the last site previous sites I had visited. This was a major disappointment to me because I wanted to know more about this specific