Why is music essential for the brain and its proper development?

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Cover of the book "La Symphonie neuronale".

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 min

Why is music essential for the brain and its proper development? How does sound carry us, even before we are born and throughout our existence?

How does music play the game of our neurons?

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Let's open our ears wide today, listening to a founding element of our humanity, essential to our development and our evolution: music!

Why and much more than a hobby that makes us feel good, music is essential for our brain and the proper functioning of our neurons?

How, from the mother's womb, are we carried by sound?

Why throughout our existence and until the end, music plays the game of our neurons going so far as to repair us, give us back the humanity taken away by disease and degeneration?

With

 professor of cognitive psychology, member of the Institut universitaire de France attached to Dijon to the CNRS Laboratory for Learning and Development.

He specialized in the study of the cognitive processes involved in the perception of music.

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CNRS research director at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center.

His work has helped to reveal the beneficial role of music in the treatment of certain cognitive disorders.

She is the CNRS 2016 silver medalist.

→ Their work

has been published by Humensciences.

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