Over this past week, we have talked about how music affects us. Today, I wanted to talk about singing, specifically. Why do we not stutter when we sing?
Why is Music?
Continuing on with yesterday’s theme of how the brain processes music, today, we discuss how music became so integral with language and why it is such an important part of our lives.
You May Not Know What a Pentatonic Scale Is, But Your Brain Does
I started out with wanting to discuss the differences between how spoken word and sung word are processed, but as I was thinking about where to begin, I realized this was a much larger topic than I had anticipated and would likely require multiple posts to even scratch the surface, since there is a whole subsection of neuroscience dedicated to the way music affects the brain, so here I am with day one of a multi-day post.