Posted on 09/18/2021 2:36:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K448 is known for its effects on cognition and other brain activity, but researchers are still seeking to understand why.
In this study, scientists played the piece for patients equipped with brain implant sensors to monitor the occurrence of IEDs - brief but harmful brain events suffered by epileptics between seizures.
They found IEDs decreased after 30 seconds of listening, with significant effects in parts of the brain associated with emotion.
When they compared the response to the structure of the work, they found the effects increased during transitions between longer musical phrases - ones that lasted 10 seconds or more.
Quon says the findings suggest that longer phrases may create a sense of anticipation - and then answer it in an unexpected way "creating a positive emotional response".
The so-called 'Mozart effect' has been the subject of research since scientists in 1993 claimed people who had listened to K448 for 10 minutes showed improved spatial reasoning skills.
Subsequent research has has tested K448's effects on various brain functions and disorders, including epilepsy.
But the authors said this is the first to break down observations based on the song's structure, which they described as "organized by contrasting melodic themes, each with its own underlying harmony".
As with previous studies, patients showed no change in brain activity when exposed to other auditory stimuli or pieces of music that were not K448 - even those from their preferred musical genres.
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When I was very young, 10 years old, I suddenly discovered I loved Classical music. Very calming.
Mozart
Grieg,
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff
Beethoven.
And jazzed up variations of their music by KOKOMO(Asia Minor) and Bee Bumble and the Stingers (Bumble Boogie, Nutrocker and others).
This is fascinating. I have epilepsy, and the significance of music for me is that it is a seizure trigger. But only certain types of music - unfortunately, pretty much all music that is popular today and is played in most stores, restaurants, and other public places.
I have to carry earbuds and my phone everywhere I go to enable listening to “safe” music (usually 80’s) to drown out the seizure-inducing music.
I treasure quiet places! But I am going to check out the Mozart music to see how my brain likes it...
Actually Wagner music does calm me down, that is until I suddenly want to “Kill the Wabbit! KILL THE WABBIT!”
Shirley, you jest.
Kill da wabbit!
I’ve suffered from them or maybe mild seizures all my life, I’ll try this too.
I love quiet to no end. Being left alone is just about everything to me most of the time. A week of people is more than enough.
It’s up there with air, water, and food.
My music of choice had mostly been instrumental.
These days I tend to play The Man With The Golden Arm a lot.
On the road, I’ll have XM classical on usually.
The same reason that men don’t like paisley and love plaid. Paisley leads you around and then disappears. Then paisley reappears and you go along again. The notes in 448 are strung together so with no breaks in them. Plaid, you know where you are going and you just go till you get there. Then stop and change directions.
Try mowing a man’s lawn in paisley. Music and weaving lines are all the same. Men want to know where you are going and when you are gong to be back and what you will do and the schedule is rigid. Women have no trouble getting in the car and driving around and stopping here and there. This drives men crazy.
Snappy, even.
I’m getting my acronyms mixed up. IED used to stand for Improvised explosive device in the recent wars.
Mozart can be pretty facile sometimes. He really banged the stuff out, and too often it shows. TBH, he gets on my nerves more than you might guess. Mozart was a liberal sucking up to liberals and their so-smart beliefs. It’s reflected in his music. Baroque is more my thing.
That’s unfair. I am pretty sure the Nazis would have disgusted Wagner.
Well . . . . There it is.
My advisor was a well-known composer in the 1950s, who had quit music school to join the Army in WWII and was awarded a Bronze Star with "V" earned fighting in Italy.
Wow. Coming and going.
Ditto!
I love to play classical music on the piano (Debussy and Bach are most fun), but listening to classical bores me to death. Even I think that’s weird.
Mozart can be pretty facile sometimes. He really banged the stuff out, and too often it shows…. Baroque is more my thing.Ah, for the endless variety of Vivaldi …
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvs2FzF64o“
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Oh, no.
I managed to last a full 23 seconds before I had to get out of that clip.
It was simply awful to my inner ear....my whole brain was doing something really, really, bad.
I will listen/watch weather clips and many of them cause me to back out/turn off the clips within seconds because they literally cause my ears to hurt. Not like ‘I don’t like it,’ hurt...actual pain hurt.
My beloved has learned to listen to some clips/concerts on his headsets because they would drive me into hiding in my bed under all the pillows with the Quiet Room curtains full drawn.
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