Why does music cut a deeper impression on the brain?

Question

when we're younger? The music of my youth does makes me feel more emotion. You? Why? I wonder why?

Answer 1

because Music effects parts of the right side of our brains that are emotional and not very logical, that is unlike spoken messages which we receive in the left, more logical parts of our brains.

Answer 2

I feel that way too about music I used to hear. I think it's because I felt everything so deeply with the feelings of one so young and I felt like everything was a possibility. Those songs bring back times that were happy and sad. I still feel as I did when I was going through whatever it was that made the song strike a cord with me in the first place. Sometimes songs still touch me, but it's not so often now.

Answer 3

Because it triggers a memory, it could be a good one or a bad one. Also it could be the fact that the words in the song have the same effect. Because of your deep deep love for that person, be it your mother, Dad, brother, e.t.c. Music can make as have all kinds of emotions, Happy, sad, sorrow, deeply hurt, e.t.c. Life is Music, Music is Life.
Music is like life it comes & then it's gone.

So the next time you see you mother, Dad, Brother, Son, e.t.c e.t.c. Just do me one of the biggest favors. Give them a BIG HUG, & a BIG KISS & tell them how much you love & care for them. That's it nothing more or nothing less.

FOR JOANNE ALWAYS & FOREVER
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX

18/12/1968-09/12/2006

Peace be with you always

Also for all the other good people who are no longer with us.

Answer 4

I guess because we were so emotional when we were teens. But I feel the same about some music I have heard as an adult if it brings back a good or bad memory.

Answer 5

I think when we were young, it's all about the music. We danced to it, sang it , took it everywhere we went with our portables . It was part of the fun times and sad times of our youth.
I see it happening now with my grandaughter. She plays music on the computer and much music on tv and in the car and thankfully I get to hear what she listens to and actually enjoy a lot of it. She would never admit this to anyone, but she likes a lot of the new country that I listen to now and some of my oldies.

Answer 6

I'm no scientist by any means but a teacher I had in high school taught me taht the more of our senses we use in one task or event, the easier it is for our brain to store and recall that information. Like the difference between just looking at a rose and holding it, smelling it, and looking at it. 3 senses as opposed to one.
So when it comes to music, consider all the things going on at the same time as you hear it. You might be drinking something, or eating, holding someone's hand, or working. All these things, what we see what we hear, touch, smell, and taste all reinforce that moment.
I don't know if she was right but it makes sense to me.

Answer 7

I have not heard about any of Scientific knowledge about Music's effects on Brain ,

But Islam discourages instrumental Music ,

Science will know more about effects of Music ,

In my view Science is Exploring the principals working behind "The work of God" , The Whole Universe.

Answer 8

the emotion is probably due to the hormones surging in puberty and the music is attached to the memories of what you were doing when you heard it. Often a song I hear will bring a flashback memory of another time and place when I listened to that same song.

Answer 9

Yes, music affects me tremendously. It can take me back to the moment I first heard the song.I listen to music more than watch tv. My boyfriend said that is why they don't allow music in the asylums, because it affects the emotions too much.LOL

Answer 10

This person's web site has a portion devoted to music science that you might find interesting:
Name: Philip Dorrell
Web site: www.1729.com