World Science Festival — Season 1, Episode 9: How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
Documentary, Talk • 30 min • 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Episode synopsis
Scientists are now finally discovering what thinkers, musicians, or even any of us with a Spotify account and a set of headphones could have told you on instinct: music lights up multiple corners of the brain, strengthening our neural networks, firing up memory and emotion, and showing us what it means to be human. In fact, music is as essential to being human as language and may even predate it. Can music also repair broken networks, restore memory, and strengthen the brain?
About World Science Festival
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
- E2Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
- E3A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
- E4Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
- E5Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
- E6Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
- E7Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
- E8Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
- E10Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
- E11The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
- E12The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence