New research reveals how the brain recognizes and anticipates music, providing insights that could aid in studying cognitive functions and developing dementia screening tools. Credit: SciTechDaily.comhave collaborated to uncover how our brain reacts to and recognizes music. Their study reveals that listening to music triggers a complex chain reaction of events in the brain, a discovery that could potentially be used in the future to help screen for dementia.
Knowing how our brain reacts to music can play a pivotal role in understanding our cognitive functions, explains one of the leading researchers behind the study, Associate Professor Leonardo Bonetti from the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University: “Our research provides detailed insights into the brain’s ability to process and predict music and contributes to our broader understanding of cognitive functions.
“In the long run, these findings could inform the development of screening tools for detecting the individual risk of developing dementia just using the brain activity of people while they listen to and recognize music.”