[Music]
[Applause]
good evening everybody my name is
Matthew Bennett and I’m a freshman at
Madhumita High School so that lovely
song that I just played for you all it’s
called liebestraum and it’s written by
Franz Liszt and oddly enough liebestraum
actually translates to a love dream
which happens to go quite well with my
quick talk today on music and your brain
and more specifically how music
stimulates it or you could say why it’s
the ultimate brain food
so most activities stimulate one side of
your brain the left or the right
or at least one side more than the other
the left side of your brain handles more
logical subjects and controls the right
side of your body while the right side
of your brain handles more imaginative
subjects like it rolls the left side of
your body the great thing about music
however is that it doesn’t stimulate
just one side of your brain it
stimulates both of them simultaneously
and as you can see here it makes it kind
of look like a light show when you’re
playing music so there’s a lot going on
here but some of the parts of your brain
that are being stimulated are the visual
auditory motor and prefrontal cortexes
the hippocampus the amygdala and the
cerebellum now since all these different
parts of your brain are being stimulated
you’re getting both a stronger
imagination and a stronger understanding
of more logical subjects in fact
students who play music have been proven
to score higher in almost every single
subject and the students who don’t and
music has also been shown to help with
Alzheimer’s and dementia patients
ranging from a true verbal memory to
recognizing emotions through music even
when they may not be able to do so
anymore their voice is an expression
music may also help patients form words
and senses better and also recall past
memories so after hearing all this said
but all you guys are wondering well
where can I get some of this brain food
well a great source of musical brain
food is playing any instrument like the
piano and the great thing about playing
an instrument is let’s say you’re
playing the piano for example you’ll be
using both sides of your body both hands
which is already stimulating a lot of
different things up here
and on top of that you’re getting all
these crazy mental benefits of playing
the music and it’s just improving your
understanding of logical and imaginative
subjects just like crazy and another
great source of musical brain food
is coming up with a quick little tune
doesn’t have to be anything crazy just
something in your head because first you
have to imagine what you’re gonna do and
that already takes a lot of brainpower
then after that you have to write it
down if you want to keep it and then you
have to play it so in short if you’re
looking for a great source of brain food
no the ultimate source of brain food try
music you can just listen to it you can
play it or you can even write it if you
want but everybody is access to music
the ultimate brain food before I go
however I’m gonna be playing a quick
arrangement of a song I wrote called –
Xander can for you all I hope you all
enjoy it thank you
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music] you
[Applause]
good evening everybody my name is
Matthew Bennett and I’m a freshman at
Madhumita High School so that lovely
song that I just played for you all it’s
called liebestraum and it’s written by
Franz Liszt and oddly enough liebestraum
actually translates to a love dream
which happens to go quite well with my
quick talk today on music and your brain
and more specifically how music
stimulates it or you could say why it’s
the ultimate brain food
so most activities stimulate one side of
your brain the left or the right
or at least one side more than the other
the left side of your brain handles more
logical subjects and controls the right
side of your body while the right side
of your brain handles more imaginative
subjects like it rolls the left side of
your body the great thing about music
however is that it doesn’t stimulate
just one side of your brain it
stimulates both of them simultaneously
and as you can see here it makes it kind
of look like a light show when you’re
playing music so there’s a lot going on
here but some of the parts of your brain
that are being stimulated are the visual
auditory motor and prefrontal cortexes
the hippocampus the amygdala and the
cerebellum now since all these different
parts of your brain are being stimulated
you’re getting both a stronger
imagination and a stronger understanding
of more logical subjects in fact
students who play music have been proven
to score higher in almost every single
subject and the students who don’t and
music has also been shown to help with
Alzheimer’s and dementia patients
ranging from a true verbal memory to
recognizing emotions through music even
when they may not be able to do so
anymore their voice is an expression
music may also help patients form words
and senses better and also recall past
memories so after hearing all this said
but all you guys are wondering well
where can I get some of this brain food
well a great source of musical brain
food is playing any instrument like the
piano and the great thing about playing
an instrument is let’s say you’re
playing the piano for example you’ll be
using both sides of your body both hands
which is already stimulating a lot of
different things up here
and on top of that you’re getting all
these crazy mental benefits of playing
the music and it’s just improving your
understanding of logical and imaginative
subjects just like crazy and another
great source of musical brain food
is coming up with a quick little tune
doesn’t have to be anything crazy just
something in your head because first you
have to imagine what you’re gonna do and
that already takes a lot of brainpower
then after that you have to write it
down if you want to keep it and then you
have to play it so in short if you’re
looking for a great source of brain food
no the ultimate source of brain food try
music you can just listen to it you can
play it or you can even write it if you
want but everybody is access to music
the ultimate brain food before I go
however I’m gonna be playing a quick
arrangement of a song I wrote called –
Xander can for you all I hope you all
enjoy it thank you
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music] you
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