Music Lights Up Your Brain: The Science Explained

Added: 2026-04-28

[00:00:00]Musical activity involves nearly every region of the brain [music] and nearly every neural subsystem.

[00:00:07]Involves perception, not just of sound, action and [music] movement even when we listen passively, and regions of the brain associated with emotion, cognition, timing, and prediction.

[00:00:25]And so [music] it's quite telling that the corpus callosum, which is this bridge between [music] the two sides of our brains acting as a sort of conductor, is significantly larger in musicians.

[00:00:39]So when [music] we play or listen to music, our brain becomes a glow.