Musical Neuroanatomy | Neuroscience for Muscians

How do we process music? A sound signal has traveled through our ears, up our brain stem, and has arrived at the auditory cortex. But it still has some ways to go before it becomes music in our brains. Find out what areas of the brain are activated as sound signals travel around the brain and are processed to become music. (This episode is heavy on the neuroanatomy so if you’re not too interested in that go ahead and skip to 10:41 to learn about the difference between your left & right brains in music processing.) Follow along with the slide deck: Contents: 0:00 Music Processing Overview 2:29 Basic Acoustic Features 3:34 Higher Order Functions 4:44 Motor Functions 6:12 Focus/Keeping Time 7:11 Learning/Memory 8:22 Emotions/Pleasure 10:11 Overview 10:41 Left vs Right Brain Differences in Music/Speech Processing ____________________________________________________________________ Welcome to Neuroscience for Musicians. This is a series of live online presentations given at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, that seeks to provide musicians with a deeper, neurologically based understanding of music. We start with the fundamentals of hearing and an overview of musical processing, then begin to explore how we understand music, why we react to it emotionally, how we learn, create, and perform music. Follow along as we dive into a modern, scientific exploration of this ancient art form. Special thanks to Dr. Alex Pantelyat for providing a platform for these presentations and for the use of a vocal clip in this video. Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine Home Page: