1. THE POWER OF
MUSIC

2. THE POWER OF MUSIC
INDEX
 Introduction
 Human evolution
 Music and Brain
 Benefits of music
 Conclussions
-Reason of the power that music has
-Video tu sum up
-Relax experience

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INTRODUCTION
 We have chosen to speak about this
topic
because we both love music.
 Everybody loves music... but why?
 And everybody listen to music
everyday… but what can we use music
for?

4. THE POWER OF MUSIC
INTRODUCTION
 So, we have also questioned…
Why is Music so…
Pleasurable
and
Useful
… in our daily
lives?

5. THE POWER OF MUSIC
WHAT'S MUSIC?
 Music is the art of combine in a sthetic
way
both sounds and silences.
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6. THE POWER OF MUSIC
HUMAN EVOLUTION
Music has got biological roots
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Music activates Pleasure and Reward-related
Regions of the Brain.

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HUMAN EVOLUTION
 Humans find a lot of things pleasurable.
 This is necessary, because if you don’t find something
pleasurable,
you don’t Do it.
 That’s why you find pleasurable things like Eating and
Sex:
they’re necessary to survive.
 Foodand Sex are natural pleasures, because they’re
primary necessities.

8. THE POWER OF MUSIC
HUMAN EVOLUTION
 What about Music?
Because it’s not a neccesity, though it’s really
pleasurable!
 Ourphysical responses to music are similar
than our responses to other necessary
things.
Our brains have an Specialized
and Ancient Reward Circuitry
that allows us to enjoy Music.

9. THE POWER OF MUSIC
HUMAN EVOLUTION
• Music must be linked to some
sort of evolutionary
adaptation that helped our
ancestors (hunting, social
bonding…)
• First bone flute known dates
back 40.000-80.000 years ago
(Homo Neardenthalensis)
• Experts assume that people
were probably singing before
they invented musical

10. THE POWER OF MUSIC
HUMAN EVOLUTION
 Whenyou need to feel pleasure in something you’re
doing, enter your DOPAMINE SYSTEM.

11. THE POWER OF MUSIC
HUMAN EVOLUTION
 So Dopamine is important for natural rewards
like
food and sex…, for artificial substances like
drugs,
 … and for Music!
 Scientific researches have shown that
Music can produce a nice increase in
Dopamine.

12. THE POWER OF MUSIC
HUMAN EVOLUTION
 Was intense pleasure when listening to
music
in the same category?
 Probably not. But Music can produce a
significant
increase in Dopamine which make us Feel
Good.
WHY have be evolved
such that music effects us this way?
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BENEFITS OF MUSIC
 Music help kids to remember basic facts.
Ex: Sesame Street
 Not only kids, adults too
Ex: Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the
world

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BENEFITS OF MUSIC
o People are more likely to cooperate with each
other in nonmusical tasks than if they’re not in
synch.
Ex: Ritual Music of Tibetan Buddhism
(bond, emotions, message, atmosphere)
 Music can help people that have serious
neurological diseases as
Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Dementia.
Ex:

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BENEFITS OF MUSIC
 Music alters mood.
Ex:
Personal examples:
 Playing music is a way to convey feelings.
Ex:

17. THE POWER OF MUSIC
CONCLUSSIONS
 HUMAN EVOLUTION
 Why human beings are able to enjoy music?
 Dopamine System is the culprit.
 BENEFITS
 Why is music so useful?
 Memories, learning, cooperation, neurological
diseases, mood, feelings.
 Is there anything clearer after this presentation?
 We hope so…

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TO SUM UP
 Video “The Scientific Power of Music”.
The Scientific Power of Music.w mv

19. THE POWER OF MUSIC
TO MAKE YOU FEEL RELAX
Close your eyes and enjoy it.
Let's see if this piece of music make you feel
better.

20. THE POWER OF MUSIC
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION.