Music and the Brain

What do we call people who study how the brain works?

• Neuroscientists

• Biologists

• Philosophers

• Physicist

What did neuroscientists notice when participants listened to music?

• Right side

• Left side

• Multiple areas of the brain lit up

• Only the hippocampus

What two instruments do neuroscientists use to view activity in the brain?

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• Electrocardiogram

• Positron Emission Tomography

• Ultrasound

In the video, what metaphor is used to describe activity in the brain while listening to music?

• Backyard fireworks

• Pod of Dolphins

• Singing birds

• Colorado vs Florida

What metaphor was used to describe what happens in the brain when people engage in making music? The backyard fireworks become a __________.

• Game of golf

• March Madness

• Tennis Match

• Jubilee

Playing music is the brain's equivalent to a ______________________.

• Bicep workout

• Abductor digiti minimi brevis workout

• Full-body workout

• Walk

Neuroscientists saw multiple areas of the brain light up, processing different information at the same time in intricate, interrelated, and astonishingly fast sequences. T/F

• True

• False

What three areas of the brain are especially engaged while making music?

• visual

• auditory

• motor

• olfactory

What kind of practice strengthens brain functions?

• structured

• disciplined

• random

• haphazard

Can we apply the strengths we gain practicing for one skill to other skills?

• Absolutely

• Not at all

• Maybe