Do you suppose that night clubs and rock concerts are really the best way to have a rest and bring some change to your life routine? After such entertainments we commonly have the feeling of the great time that we have spent but not the improvement of our physical or mental activity. The large part of the modern types of artificial music is considered by the scientists to be the aggressive means of the non-drug manipulation the human state of mind.
The scientists from the neuro-biological department of California University have carried out the research that showed the correlation between the musical preferences of the people and their IQ level. More than a hundred of students from 36 colleges agreed to take part in this experiment. They were offered to listen to the musical compositions by Mozart for ten minutes. The IQ tests fulfilled after the listening showed the results 8 or 9 grades higher tan the previous ones.
One of the scientists aiming to research the influence of music on the human mind Gordon Shaw states that the complicated music interact with the brain areas which are not directly connected with the sound processing. These areas are connected with the abstract thinking and logic.
The American scientists Lynn Couper and Milton Erickson have found out that the people who are listening to the metronome beat at the pace 60 signals per minute fall into the “alpha wave state”. This state of a human brain is perfect for education and memorizing significant amounts of the information given.
The slow beat of Baroque music (from 60 to 64 beats per minute) also has the positive effect of the human brain activity. The popularity of this genre captured the music overs after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach.
His masterpieces are full of rich overtones and intonations and are characterized by the distinct rhythm coinciding with the optimal sound frequency for a human brain to process. The language learners who were listening to Bach compositions during three weeks appeared to memorize 60 more lexical items per week. The Baroque music has the great effect of the human brain abilities. The students who were listening to it showed more success in their studies. They turned out to be able to memorize 26 % of the information more and their learning speed improved for more that 24 %. It’s not a surprise that the brightest geniuses of the past century showed interest towards the classic music.
