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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days, you hear music all the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wakes us up, motivates our workouts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keeps us company on our commutes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesné matter what kind of music it is,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,music itself has the ability to affect our moods and our bodies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all sorts of ways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We nod our heads, we sway, dance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music can give us chills,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even make us cry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music activates every area of the brain we have so far mapped.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, there's no area of the brain we know about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that music doesn't touch in some way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what's behind all that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What exactly does music do to us?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find out, I went to a whole series of tests
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designed to measure my responses to musiC.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met some kids whose brains may actually be changing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thanks to those hours of learning, practice, and performing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke with a therapist who used music to help former congressman [ ] learn to speak again,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and got a glimpse inside the brain of a two-time winning artist while he played,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all to find out how music affects us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what's going on when we listen to music?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We visited the USC Brain and Creativity Institute,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I had my head examined, literally,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to figure it out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to go into this [FMRI] machine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tiny tube will surround me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll get a baseline reading of my brain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I'm going to listen to some music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to see how my brain responds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just close your eyes, relax,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tey and get into the music as best you can, okay?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ (music) ♪
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's what we saw.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are scans of my brain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The areas in red are where my activity is above average;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in blue, below average.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you can see, there is red activity all over my brain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just in one specific area.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty-five years ago, the idea was that language is on the left side of the brain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and music is in the right side of the brain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now that we've got better quality tools,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,higher resolution imaging and better experimental methods,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've discovered that's not at all right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does that play out in different regions of the brain?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When music enters and then gets shuttled off to different parts of the brain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it stops at specialized processing units in auditory cortex,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they track loudness and pitch and rhythm and [tambour] and things like that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's visual cortex activation when you're reading music as a musician
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or watching music
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motor cortex when you're tapping your feet, snapping your fingers, clapping you hands;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cerebellum which mediates the emotional responses;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the memory and the hippocampus,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hearing a familiar passage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finding it somewhere in your memory banks