26: What Kind Of Music Stimulates The Brain The Most?
Better Brain Fitness (a Brainjo Production)
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The Joy of Surprise in Music
There's an expectation. If you are mostly listening to pop music, you're not going to expect some dissonance to just come out of nowhere. But there's also this kind of Goldilocks zone for that where we like some element of surprise. Like our brain pays attention when a prediction is wrong. And so that can be a good thing. You don't want that to be the entire experience because you fatigue of that pretty quickly.
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