Your brain responds to music like it’s a survival tool.When music plays, almost the entire brain ignites.The motor cortex drives your body to the beat.
Your brain responds to music like it’s a survival tool.When music plays, almost the entire brain ignites.The motor cortex drives your body to the beat. The hippocampus ties melodies to memories. The amygdala unleashes waves of feeling. And in the orbitofrontal cortex—the brain’s reward and decision hub—the same circuitry that flares in OCD lights up with music’s cycles of tension and release.This ...