While many areas of the brain light up simultaneously during music, such as your subcortical structures, auditory cortices, the hippocampus, and others, something unique happens the very first time you hear any song: a certain set of neurons fires together, and a unique, abstract, generalized imp...

Our brains have mirror neurons, which are neurons that fire both when performing an action and when observing someone else performing that action.

Scientists have tested this as a theory and proved that, for example, when people listened to or watched someone eat an apple, ...

A small minority of scientists argue that music only serves hedonic purposes – a byproduct of language and is only a pastime for us to feel pleasure. That would mean that if you eliminated all music from the world, life would just go on as if nothing happened.

The m...

There are 2competing theories.

• The constructivist theory argues that the brain stores relational information about objects and ideas, rather than explicit information about them. Thus, upon retrieval, we have to construct a memory representation out of th...

Neuroanatomically, music is being processed in parallel by many different regions.

• If we listen to Bach, our hair cells in the cochlea parse the incoming sound into its different frequency bands.
• Then, electrical signals are sent to the primary auditory cortex to...