Klassisk musik tränar hjärnkapaciteten

Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has gained valuable insight into how the brain sorts out the chaotic world around it.

The research team showed that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory. Peak brain activity occurred during a short period of silence between musical movements - when seemingly nothing was happening.

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"The study suggests one possible adaptive evolutionary purpose of music," said Jonathan Berger, PhD, professor of music and a musician who is another co-author of the study. Music engages the brain over a period of time, he said, and the process of listening to music could be a way that the brain sharpens its ability to anticipate events and sustain attention. ¹

Inget nytt under solen; livet och konsten delar en gemensam funktion. För er som fortfarande inte utforskat klassisk musik, börja med våra egna svenska kompositörer, t.ex. den nationalromantiske Hugo Alfvén.