一片精致的英语演讲稿Hearing-the-Music--Honing-the-Mind----音乐对大脑的影响.pptVIP

Hearing the Music,Honing the Mind ——how music affects the human brain An old study Nearly 20 years ago a small study advanced the notion that listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major could boost mental functioning. It was not long before trademarked “Mozart effect” products appealed to neurotic parents aiming to put toddlers on the fast track to the Ivy League. Georgia’s governor even proposed giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette. Does Mozart’s music have the function? Or Does only Mozart’s music have the function? A new study The evidence for Mozart therapy turned out to be flimsy, perhaps nonexistent, although the original study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, however, neuroscientists have examined the benefits of a concerted effort to study and practice music, as opposed to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based “brain fitness” game once in a while. How did they know that? Advanced monitoring techniques have enabled scientists to see what happens inside your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music lessons can produce profound and lasting changes that enhance the general ability to learn. The experiment Professor Kraus and her team have used a method known as electroencephalography(脑电图扫描), which measures electrical activity in the brain, to examine how musicians and non-musicians brains respond to different stimulus(刺激) . The Principle Nerves in your brain that respond to sound give off electricity, and we can capture that electricity, and we can determine how does your nervous system respond to speech, to music, to elements of sound that we think are important for communication. The phenomenon ?Hear Better Ms. Kraus says she could see an important difference in the way the processed sounds looked. These young adults who received formal music instruction as children had mor