Music Change of Time

On the conquer music can be used for many

other useful stuff. It can be used to changes your ability
to perceive time. Hold music -- the stuff you hear on the
line when you call everyone from the bank to your local
bail bond agency -- didn't fall into America's phone lines
by accident. It's designed specifically to reduce the
amount of time you think you're waiting, so that you're
less likely to hang up in anger. Other places that involve
waiting, such as doctors' offices, use a similar trick. Time
shrinkage is also the aim of most retail stores, which is
why you'll rarely enter a mall, supermarket or clothing
store without hearing some sort of music in the
background. To understand why exactly music makes it
seem like less time has passed, think of the human brain
as a mountain lion that is eating a bag of money.
For example, listening to music while
performing tasks that require concentration will usually
cause us to overestimate the amount of time that has
passed. The theory is that as your mind switches back
and forth between perception of the music and
concentration on the challenging tasks, it forms
separate "events," or distinct memories. When your
brain thinks about what you've been doing for the past
hour, you'll remember more of these events and recall
that the hour was quite long. Experiments have found
that time also expands when we're listening to familiar
music that we dislike.

It doesn't matter what the zookeepers

distract it with -- food, shiny objects or just
shouting and yelling. All that matters is that
they give another zookeeper the chance to
sneak up and retrieve the money while the lion
is busy deciding which one of them to eat.
Similarly, when your brain is steadily
distracted, you'll be less likely to notice things
around you in detail, and this includes the
passage of time. Our brains have limited input
capacity, and when something else is using up
that capacity, we're less likely to think things
like, "I've been standing in line to get an
autograph for three god damn hours" or "Do I
really need this Garfield alarm clock?" Yet it
works the opposite way, too. In some
situations, listening to music can actually
expand perceived time.

When we hear the opening chords of a

song, our brain remembers the whole thing
and immediately skips ahead and plays it
mentally. This fake mind-music is extremely
vivid, working on exactly the same parts of the
brain as actual music does. So the effect is that
you take a few moments to vividly imagine that
you're sitting through five minutes of that
damn New Radicals song before you come back
to reality only to realize that you still actually
have to sit through it. This is just another trick
on mind that music is flawless at doing but not
all the time, this trick is used by many people
that take advantage of this.

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Another big thing that many
people use music for is to make you a
better communicator actually; a
trained musician like Mayer would
probably be able to talk a woman into
his bed without ever even playing a
note. It turns out that studying music
gives you an advantage when it
comes to perceiving the emotions of
others, so all those years of being
chained to a piano as a child are
finally going to work in your favor.
This rewiring makes them
better able to express emotions they
are feeling, but it also makes them
more able to understand the
emotions others express. Music is
very emotional, and people wired to
understand those subtle emotional
changes can also detect them in the
vocal tones of someone talking. The
emotion of the music translates to
knowing when your boss is secretly
mad or your mother is secretly
disappointed. The sooner you start
learning music, the more pronounced
this re-wiring is. Scientists think that
teaching children music might help
kids with autism better understand
vocal cues and encode speech.

Everyday communion
People who can play
instruments at near-professional level
can detect subtle emotional changes
and intonations in the vocal tones of
others. In other words, they know
whether you are actually sad when
you say you're fine, even when most
non-musicians would have no idea.
Not only that, but the fact that they
studied music makes them better
able to tune out background noise, so
they are even better at paying
attention to what you are saying in
that crowded restaurant or bar.
Research shows that people who
have studied music actually have
brains wired differently than nonmusicians.

The fact that this brain rewiring helps them tune out
background noise could also help kids
stay focused in noisy classrooms. It is
also something that gets better the
more you play, so sticking to your
piano lessons now could lead to a
powerful advantage in your future
dating world.

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Another little secret thing

that people don't know is that music
makes you stronger. It's no secret
that many people prefer to listen to
music when they work out. But music
doesn't just make physical activity
more pleasant

Obviously, if your mind is

listening to music, it's not thinking
about how much your legs hurt or
how much longer you've got to run
before the treadmill makes that final
beeping noise. But there's much
more to it than that. First, there's
synchronicity.

Music can even make you feel less

pain. Patients listening to music after
surgery need less sedatives, report
less pain and have lower blood
pressure. As if that's not impressive
enough, doctors have found that
specially selected melodic music
dramatically reduces stress in
patients during unseated brain
surgery. In some cases, music caused
patients to relax so much that many
of them fell into a deep sleep, while
people sliced into their exposed
brains with freaking scalpels.

It actually makes our physical

performance measurably better.
When listening to music, people are
able to hold heavy weights for longer
than when they're standing in silence.
They can also complete sprints in
smaller amounts of time and are even
able to reduce their oxygen intake.
Similar to the time-perception effect
we referenced above, one element is
just plain old distraction.

When you match your

movements to a steady musical
tempo, you spend less time and effort
on the inefficient slowing down and
speeding up that happens when
you're going by your own rhythm.
Music also increases the incidence of
"flow" states -- states of meditationlike calm in which everything works
right for an athlete and that is
strongly linked to enhanced
performance.

Music Preferences
I also bet that you didn't know your music preferences are
sealed by adolescence. Imagine if everything you said, did or liked
by age 18 was stuck with you forever. Your clothes, hairstyle and
friends, and that stupid nickname you gave yourself -- all
permanently tattooed on your adult self for the whole world to
see and mock. How many of us would be walking around with
lopsided The Weekend hair and insisting that everyone call us
"Weekend Jr.?" It's not a pretty picture.You already probably
know that there are certain things that are much easier to learn as
a kid than as an adult (like, say, a foreign language). There is a
point when your brain gets a little more set in its ways. But when
your brain is new and still developing, it's constantly creating new
and different neural pathways to perform all the mental tasks that
will be required of it throughout your life. So your parents'
musical preferences, whatever is on the radio, the rinky-dinky
songs your preschool teacher taught you -- anything is fair game
to form the foundation that will be your musical taste. And your
brain pays attention, developing neural pathways to recognize the
music of your culture. At age 10, you start to bonk out the music
that doesn't fit in with your recognizable scheme of "good" music.
At age 12, you begin to use those newly formed tastes to figure
out your place in the world ("You will know us by our SPIN
DOCTORS T-shirts!"). By 14, for the most part, your musical
preferences are a done deal.
Rock / Heavy Metal: Despite the sometimes aggressive image
that rock music and heavy metal project, researchers found that
fans of this style of music are usually quite gentle. They tend to be
creative, but are often introverted and may suffer from low selfesteem.

Dance: Do you love the fast-paced rhythms of dance music?

According to researchers, people who prefer dance music are
usually outgoing and assertive.
Classical: Classical music lovers are typically more introverted, but
are also at ease with themselves and the world around them.
They are creative and have a good sense of self-esteem.
The next time you are putting together a playlist to listen to
during your commute or workout, consider how your personality
might be reflected in your song

Some say that with music you can read

someones body language well Researchers
found that the playlist of music can tell the type
of personality you really have.
Pop: Do you prefer to listen to the top 40 hits? Do the
latest tracks from Rihanna, Selena Gomez and Flo Rider
make up your workout mix? If so, chances are that you
also tend to be extraverted, honest and conventional.
While pop music lovers are hard-working and have high
self-esteem, researchers suggests that they tend to be
less creative and more uneasy.

Rap and Hip/Hop: Are Snoop Doggy and Dr. Dre &
Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, etc. more your style? In spite
of the stereotype that rap lovers are more aggressive
or violent, researchers have actually found no such link.
Rap fans do tend to have high self-esteem and are
usually outgoing.
Country: Would you rather watch CMT instead of
MTV? Country music fans are typically hardworking,
conventional and outgoing. While country songs are
often centered on heartbreak, people who gravitate
towards this genre tend to be very emotionally stable.
Indie: Do you love seeking out obscure bands and indie
artists? Fans of the indie genre are typically
introverted, intellectual and creative. According to
researchers, they also tend to be less hard-working and
less gentle. Passivity, anxiousness and low self-esteem
are other common personality characteristics.
Jazz, Blues and Soul: People who enjoy jazz, blues or soul
music were found to be more extraverted with high selfesteem. They also tend to be very creative, intelligent and
at ease. According to researcher Adrian North of HeriotWatt University in Edinburgh, UK, the reason people
sometimes feel defensive about their taste in music might
be related to how much it relates to attitudes and
personality. "People do actually define themselves
through music and relate to other people through it but
we havent known in detail how music is connected to
identity," he explained.

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Music may, in other words, tap into a brain

mechanism that was key to our evolutionary
progress. The ability to recognize patterns and
generalize from experience, to predict whats likely
to happen in the future in short, the ability to
imagine is something humans do far better than
any other animals. Its what allowed us (aided by the
far less glamorous opposable thumb) to take over
the world. If music is tied into this most important of
survival mechanisms, no wonder we like it so much.
People often put music on the list of the top five
things that are most pleasurable for them, says
Salim poor. You surely thought of none of this the
first time you did not hear Satisfaction nor would
you have wanted to but it helps explain why
youve listened to it ever since.

Yet for some people they take music to far, and can affect their way of
work in a bad way. This being said they take music in a bad influence and make
horrible decisions. People in the music business and the kids/ people that lesson
too addicting bad music make bad decisions. For example People like Justin Bieber
that we all know and how he made bad decisions also older people like Chris
brown where he just feels like its ok to hit girls. Those being in the music business,
people look up to them and many people are afraid that children will grow up
thinking its ok to make the same mistakes. Then again thats why Obama sent
away Justin Bieber to Canada so we don't have to worry about that.

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Trasod & Jovan

Music

Music is one of the most loved things out there. Many people need it in their life
from around the world. No matter who you are I guarantee you that you like some type of
music. From Pop to Hip Hop, Rap or R&B, that goes for all types of languages. Most people
don't think about how much music can affect the way of our lives. It can make you happy or
mad, make you go through all types of emotions in matter of fact. It can even encourage
people to get ready for a big basketball game or some big event. Its literally use for almost
anything. Now here some examples of how music is used for.

Lets start off with talking how music is

a big thing for people and why it affects
people. Now many people has done research
on this subject and we have learn that the
brain can function faster and more clear when
you play music that it can relate or enjoy. From
an evolutionary point of view, however, music
doesnt seem to make sense. Unlike sex, say,
or food, it did nothing to help our distant
ancestors survive and reproduce. Yet music
and its effects are in powerful evidence across
virtually all cultures, so it must satisfy some
sort of universal need often in ways we
cant begin to fathom.