Listening to music is a great way to relax and unwind, or stay focused at work and school. In fact, certain animals enjoy listening to music too. Trace discusses why animals like music, and also how listening to a certain genre might just cause cows to produce more milk!
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Caveman Flutists? First Instruments Date Back 40,000 Years
“Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate.”
Do Animals Have an Innate Sense of Music?
“Listen closely the next time you hear a bird singing, and you may hear rhythms and patterns strikingly similar to those found in human music.”
Sonata for Humans, Birds and Humpback Whales
“When humanity’s ancestors discovered, a million years or so ago, the exquisite pleasure of a hot meal by the fire, they might very well have set the mood with a little night music — a shimmering cadenza played on a slender bone flute, perhaps, or a hymn to the spirits belted out a cappella.”
The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music
“What is it that drives humans, whales, birds, and many other animals to make music?”
Brain Imaging Shows the Language of Music
“When jazz musicians let their creativity flow and start to improvise melodies, they use parts of their brains typically associated with spoken language – specifically, regions that help people interpret syntax or the structure of sentences, according to a new study.”
‘Moosic Study’ Reveals Way of Increasing Milk Yields
“Dairy cows produce more milk when listening to REM’s ‘Everybody Hurts’ or Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral Symphony’ than when subjected to Wonderstuff’s ‘Size of a Cow’ or the Beatles’ ‘Back In The USSR’ a new study by music research specialists at the University of Leicester has found.”
Moo-d Music: Do Cows Really Prefer Slow Jams?
“When it’s time to buckle down and focus, plenty of office workers will put on headphones to help them drown out distractions and be more productive.”
Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation
“To investigate the neural substrates that underlie spontaneous musical performance, we examined improvisation in professional jazz pianists using functional MRI.”
Music of the Hemispheres
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