Non-fiction Reading Response (4- HW #1)

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349594/description/Mental_puzzles_underlie_musics_delight

Part 1- Summary:

     This article is called "Mental Puzzels Underline Music's Delight" and it's written by Meghan Rosen. It is about why people enjoy music. When people listen to music, a clump of neurons deep within their brains bursts into excited activity. The brain also makes predictions about the lyrics of the song. Three regions of the brain judge the song. One region looks for patterns of the song. Another compares new songs to sounds heard before. The third checks for emotional values of the song to the person.

Part 2- Analysis:

     I think the author wrote this article to show that music doesnt just involve yoir ears. Your brain has a big part in it too. Your brain judges of you like a song or not based on the parts listed previously. In the article, researchers studied the brains of 19 people that listened to short clips of new music in a machine. At the end of each song, the human volunteers ended up buying the songs they liked.

Part 3- Response: 

     This article is very interesting because it is about something that I never new was so scientific. It's cool how the brain detects which song you like best and it's not just your taste in music but that it's much more complex and interesting. The author did a very good job on keeping the readers engaged in the article because it had fun facts about the brain and why we like music.