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These days, you hear music all the time.
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It wakes us up, motivates our workouts,
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keeps us company on our commutes.
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It doesné matter what kind of music it is,
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music itself has the ability to affect our moods and our bodies
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in all sorts of ways.
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We nod our heads, we sway, dance.
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Music can give us chills,
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even make us cry.
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Music activates every area of the brain we have so far mapped.
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In fact, there's no area of the brain we know about
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that music doesn't touch in some way.
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But what's behind all that?
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What exactly does music do to us?
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To find out, I went to a whole series of tests
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designed to measure my responses to musiC.
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I met some kids whose brains may actually be changing,
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thanks to those hours of learning, practice, and performing.
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I spoke with a therapist who used music to help former congressman [ ] learn to speak again,
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and got a glimpse inside the brain of a two-time winning artist while he played,
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all to find out how music affects us.
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So what's going on when we listen to music?
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We visited the USC Brain and Creativity Institute,
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where I had my head examined, literally,
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to try to figure it out.
Amplifying Voices
