Scientists at Stanford University have conducted a study aimed at studying the brain during the processing of information on a continuous flow of external impressions. In the course of the experiment, researchers used fragments of music works of the eighteenth century, which included clear transitions between short parts.
Ten men and eight women listened to music with headphones, while their brains were scanned by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Researchers have come to the conclusion that when listening to music, areas of brain are activated responsible for attention and forecasting.
The brain revealed the ability to recognize significant parts of music, highlighting information about their beginnings, end and border. Transitions between musical fragments proved to be the ideal conditions for the study of dynamic brain activity. This was especially evident in the short period of silence between the musical parts when the peak of brain activity was observed.
