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How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman

Big Brains

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The Role of Music in Our Brains

There's a fascinating study that looked into this question several years ago. In the auditory cortex, there were these cells that were lighting up in response to music. And so that says to me that at some point in our development, our brain sorts out categories of sounds and music happens to be one of those categories.

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