by Jo-Michael Scheibe | Jun 15, 2015 | Jo-Michael Scheibe
Continuing from last month, I have more points to share about how music can benefit our brains. 4. Music can significantly distract us while driving. A study conducted on teenagers and young adults focused on how their driving was affected by music. They tested...
by Jo-Michael Scheibe | May 13, 2015 | Jo-Michael Scheibe
“Without music, life would be a mistake” –Friedrich Nietzche Until the early 90s, we only imagined how music affected our mind. It wasn’t until the 1990s that people began to research the many ways music affects our brains using functional brain imaging. Now we have a...
by Jo-Michael Scheibe | Apr 17, 2015 | Jo-Michael Scheibe
Music is an extremely ancient activity, which humans have participated in and enjoyed for tens of thousands of years. Music can take us on an emotional ride from sadness to happiness or from anger to peaceful. It can take us on a trip through the past as we replay our...
by Jo-Michael Scheibe | Mar 18, 2015 | Jo-Michael Scheibe
Music is a powerful tool with countless benefits for the human brain, such as providing an escape from the real world and uplifting our mood, but it is a relationship that psychology experts are still trying to completely understand. Researches are continually...
by Jo-Michael Scheibe | Feb 11, 2015 | Jo-Michael Scheibe
At Voice Charter School in Queens, students learn to read music and sing complicated harmonies. Their classes are far more musically focused than other charter schools or at schools with children of that age. The education is focused on producing via their vocal...
by Jo-Michael Scheibe | Jan 9, 2015 | Jo-Michael Scheibe
Have you ever heard of the Friday Afternoons project? Friday Afternoons started in November 2011, initially to engage Suffolk school children by providing 12 songs to be sung. The songs were intended to be for children, written by Benjamin Britten, composer and...
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