Emmanuel Bigand, very serious professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Burgundy, in Dijon, musician and co-author of the book
The Neuronal Symphony
: why music is essential to our brain
* and on the occasion of Sound Week UNESCO, in mid-January, whose theme was “Towards a sound ecology”, deciphers for us the ultra-beneficial effects of music on our cognitive faculties, from very early childhood to old age.
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The brain needs it
Scientists say, “it is not the ear that listens, but the brain.”
Because music, if it is universally appreciated (by fans of heavy metal as well as those of Bach) “awakens” the brain, and thereby the emotions, constitutive of our humanity.
Emmanuel Bigand specifies: “Music is an object of culture, but it has biological roots: it is in fact essential to the human species, which bases its adaptation on collaboration with others.
The notion of attachment is a concept…
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