Besides the fact that music is highly effective at increasing our health and decreasing our stress levels, developing your musical skills is a great way to get yourself in the studying mindset. Singing centers your mind and body all at once. Over 100 muscles coordinate simultaneously to sing one phrase. Slow controlled deep breathing, note reading and anticipating the flow of a musical phrase… you get it. There’s nothing that brings your mind and body into complete focus and control than singing.
Harvard agrees too: “musicians learn and repeatedly practice the association of motor actions with specific sound and visual patterns (musical notation) while receiving continuous multisensory feedback. This association learning can strengthen connections between auditory and motor regions (e.g., arcuate fasciculus) while activating multimodal integration regions (e.g., around the intraparietal sulcus). We argue that training of this neural network may produce cross-modal effects on other behavioral or cognitive operations that draw on this network.”
So, basically…. Just join choir, your brain and your other studies will thank you for it.
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Harvard agrees too: “musicians learn and repeatedly practice the association of motor actions with specific sound and visual patterns (musical notation) while receiving continuous multisensory feedback. This association learning can strengthen connections between auditory and motor regions (e.g., arcuate fasciculus) while activating multimodal integration regions (e.g., around the intraparietal sulcus). We argue that training of this neural network may produce cross-modal effects on other behavioral or cognitive operations that draw on this network.”
So, basically…. Just join choir, your brain and your other studies will thank you for it.
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