Integration of Both Left and Right Brain Hemispheres
Music may activate the flow of stored memory across the corpus . This allows the right and left brain hemispheres to work in harmony rather than in conflict. Since music is nonverbal in nature, it will trigger the right hemisphere. When used in a therapeutic nature, the verbalization of words will trigger the logical left brain at the same time. Therefore, music therapy allows communication between the left/right brain.
Imagining Music Mentally
Brain imaging techniques discovered by Robert Zatorre and his colleagues demonstrate that imagining music can activate the auditory cortex almost as strongly as listening to it. They also showed that imagining music also stimulates the motor cortex, and imagining the action of playing music activates the auditory cortex. This means that a person can hear music even if it is not really playing.
Synesthesia and Music
Synesthesia happens when perception in one sense activates a perception in another sense. A person who experiences musical synesthesia may see a color, smell something, experience a taste, or feel a change in temperature due to the music they are listing to. Chromesthesia is a specific form of synesthes whereby a person sees visual images, colors, or shapes when they are listening to music. Synesthesia occurs when there is increased cross-talk between different cerebral regions, and music aids this cross-talk.
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