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Updated August 19, 2022
Shakespeare called music “the food of love,” but researchers have also found music to be the food of thought. Rich in complexity, classical music stimulates your brain the way exercise stimulates your body. Your brain, on classical music, unconsciously calculates the relationships between one note and the next. Studies suggest that upbeat classical music especially — think Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven — seems to prime our brains for certain kinds of thinking.
One study showed that listening to classical music enhances the secretion of a feel-good hormone called dopamine, as well as learning and memory. And if this genre is not your thing, many studies have found similar results with the whole spectrum of music, from jazz to rock ‘n’ roll.
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