Day 12 of the February daily challenge

Today's topic is: What music can do to your brain!?

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What are some styles of music that keep you relaxed and what are some facts you may not have heard of?

Well actually many people have their own relaxing music, some might say heavy metal is relaxing and some might say country music is relaxing and some might even say classical is relaxing, it all depends on you and your personality. But let's get into facts that you may not know...

1) Listening to sad music provokes more nostalgia than sadness.

People in the study reported that sad music brought up a wide range of complex and partially positive emotions, such as nostalgia, peacefulness, tenderness, transcendence and wonder.

2) Repetitive choruses are the key to a hit song.

Basically less complicated transitions and more repition is the key to becoming a hit song. Though their is a limit to repition which some songs are harmed, instead of making it a good song.

3) The “mere exposure effect” makes us like certain music just because we hear it a lot.

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, director of the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas, explains why repetition makes us like music: “People seem to misattribute their increased perceptual fluency – their improved ability to process the triangle or the picture or the melody – not to the prior experience, but to some quality of the object itself.”

4) We mishear lyrics because of the powerful role expectations play in our hearing.

This happens because the meaning we create from songs doesn’t come entirely from what we hear. Of course their is a difference between watching a music video and listing just to the music. It makes a different mental picture.

5) People get chills listening to all different sorts of music.

People more openness to experience of a song are more likely feel a chill. Whatever that music is, you’re likely to get the occasional shiver down your spine.

6) Songs that get stuck in your head are called “earworms”.

Cited Work

Oakes, Kelly. "13 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Listening To Music." BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

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