12 Amazing Things Scientists Discovered This Year About People Who Listen to Music

[antigop]

http://mic.com/articles/106100/12-amazing-things-scientists-discovered-about-music-this-year

1. Learning an instrument at a young age can provide improved executive function.

2. Rhythmic ability has been linked to language learning.

3. Music training can help close the achievement gap.

4. It can combat ADHD.

5. It can provide benefits to long-term memory.

6. It can actually cure tinnitus.

See the article for the remaining six.

[Scuba]

1. Hmmmm ...

By far the saddest musical news of the year is that some people's brains simply cannot derive pleasure from music no matter how good or how high quality. The disorder is a form of anhedonia, which describes a person's inability to enjoy activities most find pleasurable. Researchers have already identified in other fields, including sexual anhedonia and social anhedonia.

"Now that we know that there are people with specific musical anhedonia," said Josep Marco-Pallerés, lead author of the study.

Individuals with specific musical anhedonia have normal music processing abilities, and they're not depressed. The music they hear simply does not translate into an autonomic response or feelings of pleasure. People with musical anhedonia did receive large amounts of pleasure and nervous system response from playing a economic money-exchange game. Everyone's got their trigger.

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The tinnitus claim makes it seem like they train the individual to tune out the appropriate "ringing" frequencies. I suffer from this problem and will research this further.

[antigop]

2. good luck, Scuba...hope you find relief. nt

[joshdawg]

5. Some days "my" tinnitus is not so bad, but

other days, it's like that is the only thing I can hear. Maybe I need to listen to more music. hmmmm.
Good luck to you, Scuba.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Pick up some Lipo-Flavonoid. On most days it knocks mine out.

[joshdawg]

8. Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try.

[markpkessinger]

3. Strictly speaking . . .

. . . several things on that list apply to people who seriously study a musical instrument and play music, not those who merely listen to it.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Yes, it's about musicians. People who take music lessons and learn instruments.

I find it fascinating, because my parents and sister had no musical talent but I got a lot of it and studied two instruments and voice.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Seems to be about those who make music....

nt