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This article explains about the same experiment that WHY YOUR BRAIN LOVES MUSIC-TELEGRAPH does. See summary for that article.

With previous research suggesting that the fostering of long term memories happens during sleep (when the brain is in an oscillating rhythm), current research suggests that listening to audio coinciding with that rhythm can increase memory skill. As an experiment, researchers worked with 11 healthy students who were asked to memorize 120 word pairs before going to bed. As a result, on the night that they listened to the rhythm of their brain, they remembered the most words. This study also revealed that synced audio was linked to a longer deep sleep instead of more deep sleep cycles.

Since the 1920s, researchers have recorded rhythmic patterns or electrical impulses in the brain. Now, rhythm is known to have effects on perception, attention, working memory, learning, and language. Gazzaley, a neuroscientist, wants to determine if these rhythms vary between healthy individuals. He is also interested in exploring what roles these rhythms play in various disorders. In one experiment, Gazzaley worked with the drummer, Mickey Hart, by strapping him to an EEG while playing the drums. Hart's brain was shown on screen, live.

The relationship between music and neuroscience involved many research teams, one coming from the Rotman Research Institute in Canada. For this project, the team arranged a group of 19 volunteers, each given short song excerpts (all familiar with the style). While the participants listened, the brains, being scanned by MRI, highlighted one region: the nucleus accumbens, responsible for the sensation of pleasant surprise. However, this only works when the style is recognized.

Music can have extraordinary affects on the human brain. Looking in on "ear worms" (meaning getting a song stuck in your head), research reveals that what's going on is neural circuits getting stuck in a repeating loop, playing the thing repeatedly in the head. It is also found that, in the process of human evolution, the structures that respond to music in the brain were first to evolve than the structures that respond to language. Further research also looked into the brain's response to musical pleasure, and animals' response to beats.

As a pharmacist, Catherine Ulbricht studied different types of music and its therapeutic effects. There are scientific evidences that support that music influences mood and helps with stress. 5 conditions for which music therapy has good evidence for are autism, dementia, depression, infant development, and sleep quality. However, music shouldn't be listened to at high volumes nor should be a sole treatment for dangerous medical/psychiatric conditions; therefore, safety should be taken into account.

In a survey carried out by Dr. Brown, an author, 86% of the participants reported having experiences that they recall from past dreams. Anne Cleary, Ph.D. has three reasons as to why a moment might seem like a re-experience of a dream: forgetting the experience leading to the dream, connections made during sleep, and mistaking the source. Strongly believing that dreams don't just come from "nowhere", Cleary admits to having "deja vu" experiences before.

Using a computer program, Neuroscientist Kamitani led an experiment to compare the brain's activity during sleep and during wake. This study involved 3 adult males, who were hooked up to a fMRI (used to measure brain activity). Being told to describe the things they saw in their dreams, the 3 adults were also asked to look at those objects in real life. Kamitani's study revealed that the brain responded similarly to objects dreamt about or seen awake.

Phil Plait, the author of Bad Astronomy, strongly believes that astrology is inaccurate according to 3 things horoscopes assert: force from planets and stars affect humans; force can be tracked; horoscopes predict fortune. Scientists argue, that out of the 4 forces (gravity, electromagnetism, strong, and weak), strong and weak forces have nothing to do with astrology itself, and the objects that exert the most gravitational and electromagnetic forces on the Earth have little influence in astrology. Many other researchers and authors support the idea that astrological predictions are biased and harmful.

Being the leader of the research team at the University of Alberta, Lisa Hartling experiments with how music affects levels of pain. The team conducted with 42 children in the pediatric ER: half given music to listen to while getting an IV, the rest given no music. Hartling reports that there were less pain after the procedure for the kids that had listened to music than the kids that had not. She hopes to continue this research, testing with different types of music or other distractions to help lower pain during medical procedures.

The bright light emission from smartphones or tablets can affect melatonin, the hormone that controls the body's sleep-wake cycles. A Mayo Clinic study tested with different brightness levels and distances the devices must be to least affect melatonin levels in the body. Results revealed that low brightness levels along with the device held 1 foot away from the face disrupts sleep the least.