Comparing Emotions Are Contagious, By Marko Ahtisaari And Ketki Karanam

Young musicians have more complex connections between different brain regions and more elaborate auditory and motor systems than kids who didn’t play an instrument(National Institutes of Health). “When you make music, it engages many different areas of the brain, including visual, auditory and motor areas,” says Schlaug. “That’s why music-making is also of potential interest in treating neurologic disorders.”(National Institutes of Health). “Does music actually touch your heart?” Yes, it actually does. It has been shown that fast paced music increases heart rate and slow paced music decreases heart rate.(The Effect of Music on Heart Rate).

Because musical pieces portray emotions, different music make people feel different things and thus get associated with different things. Jay Dowling and Dane Harwood explain that "patterns within the music itself ... of tensions and relaxations ... mirror the form of emotional tensions and relaxations" (Dowling 205) that humans relate to their own. This is shown by a study where every subject who associated a song with their current relationship explained that the song gave them the pleasant emotions that their relationship provided (Baumgartner 616).

This emotional connection is thought to be due to synchronized rhythms of electrical activity. When neuronal rhythms are synchronized in specific brain regions, memories are formed more effectively. Responding to a song emotionally is thought the cause neurons to become excited and form these synchronized rhythms which in turn cause the brain to associate seizures with memories of a specific genre/type of music (Swaminathan,

something. It is shown that learning music activates areas of the brain and synchronizes the mind

This book has brought lots of different emotions to me and I really think about how Min and I are very similar. The emotions she has experienced I have at some point in my life felt the same ones. Her feeling about this boy when she first sees him and when they are out shopping. The things she says too are very similar to what I sometimes say. Her thought to give back the box of stuff that was memory’s of hers and Ed’s relationship is something I would do too.

I can see a young and confident man hovering proud amongst the powdered white lines on the grass. His sweat soaked body and open wounds are merely trophies on display for the witnesses of the battle just fought. This is where Amy Cuddy’s speech time warps me to as she discusses the history of the power pose. It is so easy to compare my competitive young self with these facts Amy shares. I would say that there is an undeniable truth that our non-verbal body language will stimulate others into forming judgements and opinions, or even share similar emotions.

Van Dyck, Vansteenkiste, Lenoire, Lesaffre, and Leman’s (2014) experiment identifies whether induced emotions of happiness and sadness can be recognized from dance movements. Their study revealed subjects were able to recognize the emotions expressed by the dancers accurately. Zentner and Eerola (2010) examined whether infants between the ages of 5-24 months were able to take part in rhythmic engagement and identification. The study found infants were in fact able to engage more with rhythmic sounds than they were to speech and that they were also able to distinguish between fast and slow tempo. Jensenius (2007) provides the different definitions for gestures and an outline various music related movements and the taxonomies used to describes these actions.

Overall, the article covers the correlation between brain disorders and musical processing. The authors, Camilla Clark and Laura Downey and Jason Warren, have a claim that recent findings in research allow us as a society to further understand the biological role of music. The evidence provided is quite useful for the authors and researchers themselves, as it assists in forming a more concrete answer as to what the role of music really is in our human society. Similar to the first article, there is a significant amount of data. But, in this article there is more data concerning the different responses that result from different types of music on different types of brain disorders. There are even full brain scans with highlighted parts that show which parts of the brain are responding to music. As for counterarguments, it would be quite difficult in this case to provide a counterargument because of how plausible the claim really is. Answers are forming from the extensive research, but the answer to what the true biological role of music hasn’t come up yet. As stated before, this article is almost entirely information and is certainly a scholarly form of text. There are no biases from what has been read so far. There isn’t much of a gap in the argument because the data that has been formed from the extensive research does show that we are learning more about the effects of

If music reveals emotions, it is not a normal emotion like any other (Stecker 273). The expression in music can be considered a traditionalized phenomenon (Stecker 273). There are common questions about

I think that music quite often expresses emotional qualities of human personality such as happiness, sadness, , aggressiveness, and tenderness. I also think that music quite often affects us emotionally in the sense that it evokes or arouses emotions in us. My question is whether there is any connection between these two facts, whether, in particular, music ever arouse an emotion. A musical element such as a melody, a rhythm, or a chord expresses a feeling not because it arouses that feeling in anyone but may be because it has the some content as expressive human behavior of some kind.

The emotional response is part of a physical response (Goldstein). Oxytocin, or the “Cuddle hormone,” can be released by singing (Goldstein). Listening to music can raise the amount of dopamine in the body. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter produced in the brain that helps control its reward and pleasure centers (Goldstein). Other hormones affected are cortisol, which is involved with arousal and stress; testosterone, which affects aggression and arousal; and triggers the release of endorphins (Lemonick). Emotions are usually felt in the heart, but most are stimulated in the brain. Much of the music signals received are processed in the right half of the brain (Lemonick). Different neurons are used when playing an instrument than the neurons that are used while listening to music. Neurons can also differ based on whether the song has vocals or if it is just an instrumental track (Lemonick). Listening to music while focusing can help boost brainpower (Hammond).

The power of music is inevitable. It is a driving force that fuels society and can affect the emotions and thought processes of its listeners. The tones, rhythms, beats, and melodies of various musical genres has harvested Earth for years. From the Medieval Era to the Romantic Era and the 21th century, musical genres continue to evolve with time and leave everlasting impacts. Music possesses the ability to create a strong emotional and developmental influence on people, which in turn causes their behaviors and emotions to either be intensified or replicated; thus, music genres impact how the brain functions. Research has unraveled various ways music affects the operation of the brain and to what extent.

As the combination of different sounds travel through out ears, we tend to connect music with certain emotions or memories. For example, to feel that adrenaline rush we select a more upbeat tone in music. If you want a relaxed mood, you listen to something nice and calm with a relaxing melody. According to an article by Mental Health Center, students at Penn State did a study on music and emotions; they showed that people’s emotions have a more positive attitude after they listened to music. Music has a great

In order to understand how music can affect the body and mind, one needs to understand the composition of sound itself. Don Campbell describes it by

Music elicits an emotional and cognitive response in all who listen to it. It is powerful at the individual level because “it can induce multiple responses – physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral” (Francis, 2008,