Music and Learning

Music and Learning
There has always been a connection between music and brain development. Music plays a very important in the development of a child so it should be used while learning as someone that is older. Music is essential because it activates the left and right side of the brain at the same time. And this helps the brain contain memory and information. Music can also reactivate prior knowledge. Music then also helps the brain ability to think and reason and create. Many researchers have proved that if students are listening to music such as Mozart, or Beethoven those students will over all have a better score than those who were not under any type of music influence. Neurons trigger relaxation in the body when people listen to different types of music. This makes paying attention a lot easier as well.
Due to music’s mathematical order, it gives a positive effect to the human mind. The different types of rhythm, pitches and tones stimulate different parts of the brain. In high school, those with a musical background have higher than those without. As teenagers, there is much reconstruction going on in the brain at that time.
Although it may seem elementary, learning a song or a dance step creates a unique connection of body and mind interaction. Multi-sensory teaching provides for the best learning in all ages. This works because if one sense is not able to pick up something that is being learned, than another sense can work on understanding the information.
Music therapist often believe that music help structure emotional, mental and physical feelings that may be too intense t handle alone. Cognitive psychologist have confirmed that music is a good idea for educating.
Music relaxes the mind and lowers stress that help with learning. It acts directly on the body with can lead to faster learning. It also stimulates and awakens the mind and that increases blood flow and oxygen flow to the brain. While music works with our emotions, it creates clear passages for long-term memory.
Musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Frederic Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have been able to show the activation of the left and right side of the brain because out their 60 beats per minute music.
Music is commonly used as a mnemonic device to help recall information. “In fourteen hundred sixty-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” “I before E, except after C.” These are common mnemonic that help us regain information and apply basic ideas to something.
Experiment:
Let’s look at an experiment. Something will be easier to memorize when music is incorporated with it.
Sentence: Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.
Giving that sentence without any tones or pitches will be harder to memorize than giving the sentence to someone with many tones and pitches.
Stressing certain ideas and words can give the learner a better understanding of the sentence itself.
This can be the best way to learn neuroscience because it is involving more than just one sense. The more senses that is used, the deeper is our learning.
There really isn’t any “extra” work that has to go on to use this method. It’s easy, enjoyable and effective.
The process for this experiment is simple. Testing someone with music, and then without is the easiest way this experiment can be done.

Nedjine Dorcely