By maksim28 on Skatehive
Recently, while scrolling through my feed, I came across an interesting study on how music affects our perception of time. Scientists from the University of Guadalajara have shown that listening to music can literally rewire the brain, strengthening connections between different areas and helping us to more accurately estimate the duration of events. The experiment compared musicians and people without musical training. It turned out that musicians' brains already function like a well-oiled machine: their perception of time is stable and hardly changes under the influence of music. However, the situation is different for “non-musicians” — in silence, they made mistakes more often, but after listening to an electronic composition, their estimates of time became noticeably more accurate. Researchers explain this by the fact that music acts as a synchronizer: it helps the brain organize local processes and build more coordinated neural networks. It turns out that even brief exposure to mu