Your brain on music | Alan Harvey | TEDxPerth

Neuroscientist and musician Alan Harvey takes us on an interactive journey showing live on stage what music does to our brain waves, and explains how music is more than just an entertainment. You've never seen music like this before…
Alan is joined by fellow neuroscientist Andrew Price and musicians from Perth Symphony Orchestra led by Bourby Webster. Alan’s main experimental neuroscience interests are in trauma, transplantation, gene therapy and regeneration, his research primarily focused on understanding the growth of circuits in the visual system and spinal cord, and how best to protect and repair these circuits after injury.
He is passionate about music, and over the past half-century he has performed in choirs, as a solo artist and in various folk and rock bands. In 2017, his book "Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls" was published by Oxford University Press, bringing together his musical and neuroscientific interests, exploring music throughout human evolution and emphasising its importance for human welfare. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @classyog
    @classyog3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a geriatric nurse.. I play music for my patients.. It amazes me how music changes their mood and brings up memories.. They may not remember every lyric but they can hum the tune..Music is amazing!!

  • @karifoto

    @karifoto

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’re an angel. That’s so important and so needed 💙💙💙

  • @venkatvyshu3275

    @venkatvyshu3275

    2 жыл бұрын

    You r doing a great job Well done

  • @Meandmymirror

    @Meandmymirror

    Жыл бұрын

    I want to be able to do this! But I’m not a nurse or a music therapist. I just want to volunteer to play the music of their youth

  • @erikotrevor6782

    @erikotrevor6782

    7 ай бұрын

    You look like EDP445

  • @PerthSymphony
    @PerthSymphony5 жыл бұрын

    We absolutely LOVED being involved in this project. We, at Perth Symphony know just how much of an effect music has on our mind and mood, let alone our mental wellbeing! It was so great to be able to share this with everyone at TedX Perth and now in the world of KZread!

  • @serijas737

    @serijas737

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for contributing to the TED Talk, I appreciate your work.

  • @aurasenpai8139

    @aurasenpai8139

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing with us.

  • @rickyhackett6703

    @rickyhackett6703

    3 жыл бұрын

    I used to feel like I couldn’t do anything, I have autism and can struggle to “get a grip” on things sometimes but when I pick up my takamine and start playing it’s like riding a bike

  • @trishacarney821

    @trishacarney821

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wish to learn more about the effects of musical crescendos on lifting depression.

  • @saywhat446

    @saywhat446

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for your work! Can I ask what was the second piece of music used in the EEG demonstration (quite dissonant and supposedly unpleasant)? I really loved it...

  • @JackHernandezGentlemanJack
    @JackHernandezGentlemanJack4 жыл бұрын

    This talk actually made me cry. Music is everything to me.

  • @anemonaloco

    @anemonaloco

    3 жыл бұрын

    Music is the noblest endeavor a human could do. it is both things at the same time, a treasure and a gift.

  • @bmois9578

    @bmois9578

    3 жыл бұрын

    Protect it and never forget it. It is humanity.

  • @MaristerPrado

    @MaristerPrado

    2 жыл бұрын

    This happened to me too Brazilian Artur da Távola said: "Music is an inner life and those who have an inner life never suffer from loneliness". Today May 28, 2021 God bless you.

  • @allmusic962

    @allmusic962

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    2 жыл бұрын

    there's a secret to music as meditation that we modern Westernized people don't understand. haha. Music goes way deeper than we think.

  • @GrahamGreeneGuitar
    @GrahamGreeneGuitar26 күн бұрын

    I teach music to children with learning disabilities, and I have seen first-hand and in real time the effects. Alan is absolutely right.

  • @drrp41
    @drrp415 жыл бұрын

    I’m working with Alzheimer’s Patients as a musician/therapist and I vouch for the truth of this video. Music has the power to awaken so much good emotionally and cognitively . It should be enlisted as adjunct therapy in all medical treatments.

  • @PerthSymphony

    @PerthSymphony

    5 жыл бұрын

    The power of music is amazing! Have you seen the doco 'Alive Inside'?

  • @hosamorfali3444

    @hosamorfali3444

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ur blessed to be part of something so magical and meaningful 🙏🏻

  • @ferrygirl100

    @ferrygirl100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for what you do. I am also sure that healers have an effect on the health of people. Wondering if their healing vibrations are at 40 hertz? I guess it can be measured?

  • @corryjookit7818

    @corryjookit7818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ferrygirl100 Yes.

  • @alanharvey5850
    @alanharvey58502 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the positive feedback for this talk. I actually gave the talk on November 11th - Remembrance Day - hence the opening verse of No Man's Land.

  • @user-jg1fl2dy9p

    @user-jg1fl2dy9p

    6 ай бұрын

    how do I cite your video in MLA format. I am researching a paper on your wonderful works of life.

  • @brainfm-relaxation
    @brainfm-relaxation3 жыл бұрын

    Keep your brain healthy and young with music! "Whether you need to relax, increase your energy, improve your thinking, or just get motivated for the day, music can provide extra support when you need it the most,", according to Harvard Health.

  • @crazyprayingmantis5596
    @crazyprayingmantis55964 жыл бұрын

    The earliest musical instruments that we know of all of us have today. Our bodies

  • @mamachasech4382
    @mamachasech4382 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent. I believe music is very important to society

  • @lucario4399
    @lucario43993 жыл бұрын

    the best ever lecture i have seen on ted

  • @helenbromley3618
    @helenbromley3618 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! I'm a violin teacher and can relate to so much of what was shared. Thank you! As Bob Marley sang "one good thing about music when it hits, you feel no pain".

  • @dboywhogotlucky

    @dboywhogotlucky

    Жыл бұрын

    what was the calming piece name in the middle of the video?

  • @fetijajasari9522

    @fetijajasari9522

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@dboywhogotlucky Air by J. S. Bach

  • @mrski4945
    @mrski49452 жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful. With all the information he provides, with all the studies and proof of what music is capable of, I wonder why we as a society do not use music for more?

  • @agustinarellanes3628

    @agustinarellanes3628

    Жыл бұрын

    We use it for profit

  • @littlefoxwen
    @littlefoxwen2 жыл бұрын

    This lecture inspired me a lot. Sometimes music can have the effect that language can't do.

  • @Sis4Real
    @Sis4Real4 жыл бұрын

    Love this scientistic explanation of music.

  • @corryjookit7818
    @corryjookit78183 жыл бұрын

    Music is my first love and it will be my love, music of the future and music of the past..

  • @FindingsOfAnArmouredMind
    @FindingsOfAnArmouredMind2 жыл бұрын

    Music is not an art, it's a science. We are only re-discovering this.

  • @zin_dnz

    @zin_dnz

    3 ай бұрын

    Not an Art ? Keep your opinion to yourself It is both Art and Science combined

  • @great-garden-watch

    @great-garden-watch

    2 ай бұрын

    Makes sense. All the musicians I know are science minded but also creative

  • @rickyhackett6703
    @rickyhackett67033 жыл бұрын

    I feel that we get our intense love/feeling for music because it’s only been recently that its so readily available, in fact if you were living 200 years ago you would only ever hear your favourite song an average of 3 times in your whole life

  • @rickyhackett6703

    @rickyhackett6703

    3 жыл бұрын

    We are still new to music

  • @fetijajasari9522

    @fetijajasari9522

    Жыл бұрын

    We humans had our own player, recorder or what ever-our own voice! People sung much, much more before radio and the latter developed devices turned many of us into listener rather than singer.

  • @LindaGillanHEARTofLINDA
    @LindaGillanHEARTofLINDA4 жыл бұрын

    Fabulous, entertaining and informative presentation, thank you Alan. May we see the inclusion and enjoyment of music reinstated in education and communities, to rebuild social connection and harmony around the world.

  • @DJKoollord
    @DJKoollord5 жыл бұрын

    amazing....I had to learn music theory and mute scary, and sad scenes in movies to understand that the music is the cause of feelings in cartoons, and movies.

  • @FindingsOfAnArmouredMind

    @FindingsOfAnArmouredMind

    3 жыл бұрын

    And it's also the cause of countless of media manipulations... you're onto something ;)

  • @angelopiano
    @angelopiano Жыл бұрын

    My favorite TED TALK ever As a musician and music therapist, I love to see MASTER ALAN to show the REAL and not so considered POWER OF MUSIC applied on MENTAL HEALTH. Pay attention to what you listen, it may be guiding your life (FOR GOOD OR BAD)

  • @hosamorfali3444
    @hosamorfali34445 жыл бұрын

    Ive never enjoyed something more than this, I watched it two times, first to hear and observe second time to take notes, and theres definitely a third and fourth time 🙏🏻

  • @jimgarner3353

    @jimgarner3353

    4 жыл бұрын

    CAN U SHARE UR NOTES SO I CAN TURN THEM INTO MY TEACHER

  • @corryjookit7818

    @corryjookit7818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jimgarner3353 You're too far gone.

  • @neutrino1115
    @neutrino11155 жыл бұрын

    One of the most fascinating lectures on TEDx! Thank you so much for delivering such a talk and choosing this topic!

  • @talentzone8257
    @talentzone82573 жыл бұрын

    That's the power of music. Loved the presentation. 💖🥰💝

  • @anaghavarghese
    @anaghavarghese2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for demonstrating on the spot. 🤩✨

  • @johnwest3509
    @johnwest35092 жыл бұрын

    thank you for an interesting and educational talk. I have been blessed for 38 years with a son who has music in him since a very young age and I can tell you that his music gives me emotions of happiness each and every day. I often weep at the beauty of his music which is an expression of his beautiful soul.

  • @jfnoxus
    @jfnoxus Жыл бұрын

    Great talk! Listening to classical piano music has helped me deal with the emotional trauma I experienced.

  • @everyonesalama4447
    @everyonesalama44473 жыл бұрын

    this is one of my favourite ted talks ever

  • @LeeParkLab
    @LeeParkLab5 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant Lecture, Entertaining, Informative and Insightful. Perfect Example of a Good Lecture.

  • @corinadantes1711
    @corinadantes17114 жыл бұрын

    What a great talk! Congratulations.

  • @rickyhackett6703
    @rickyhackett67033 жыл бұрын

    I’m 24 picked up a Takamine 2 years ago and have loved it ever since,

  • @RevelationNavigation
    @RevelationNavigation2 ай бұрын

    This is so awesome! The right sounds HEAL and BALANCE our brains and bodies. Really grateful we can now create customized sound therapy from scanning over 10,000 frequencies in the voice from just a 10-second recording! Is anyone else here using the Inner Voice program on the AO Scan! It's EPIC. Unlimited in how many times a day you use it, can be loaded on your phone or computer, and you can help an unlimited amount of people too! It was a game changer for me. 😀

  • @allangabrielle5215
    @allangabrielle52154 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful presentation.

  • @kgomotsomoloi2915
    @kgomotsomoloi2915Ай бұрын

    Well presented Sir thank you 👏👏👏

  • @JayCee-hw4zc
    @JayCee-hw4zc Жыл бұрын

    You are soooo right! Keep speaking.

  • @wellbodisalone
    @wellbodisalone28 күн бұрын

    Great explanation about music! 🎵

  • @lucassousa1252
    @lucassousa12523 жыл бұрын

    The best Tedx Talks presentation

  • @midighostbeatz7945
    @midighostbeatz79453 жыл бұрын

    Deep AF.. !Added to favourites for future reference!!!

  • @yoelczalas
    @yoelczalas Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for that kind of content.

  • @pedroferreiraferreira381
    @pedroferreiraferreira3813 жыл бұрын

    NICE TALK. I WAS REALLY CURIOUS ON WHY MUSIC HAVE SUCH AN IMPACT IN MY LIFE, THANK YOU

  • @farhanislam4693
    @farhanislam46934 жыл бұрын

    Simply Brilliant

  • @polapana4805
    @polapana4805 Жыл бұрын

    I'm watching this because I'm planning to purchase Spotify premium to get approval that it'll be worth it.

  • @mazadan
    @mazadan3 жыл бұрын

    I met. Eric once and what a joy

  • @carollienps77
    @carollienps772 жыл бұрын

    This is true! Music can affects our emotions and other aspects in life

  • @Storykate
    @Storykate3 жыл бұрын

    It’s so sad that music learning is not sort of every early childhood curriculum and primary learning

  • @MySpaceDxC_Suffo_AtTheGates

    @MySpaceDxC_Suffo_AtTheGates

    Жыл бұрын

    The US has mandatory music and recorder class. And then they let the students choose whether to go on to band or orchestra or not afterwards.

  • @axelbriizt
    @axelbriizt Жыл бұрын

    one of the best Ted talks i've ever heard!!

  • @herul7788
    @herul77882 жыл бұрын

    I love music, anytype, anygenre, anytime .

  • @JohnTBasco
    @JohnTBasco3 жыл бұрын

    I heard about this talk from Pastor David Asscherick..Fascinating!!

  • @ferrygirl100
    @ferrygirl1004 жыл бұрын

    Oh gosh, I am from Perth, never knew about this. Sorry I missed it. Sadly my cats both react the same when I sing....almost the same reaction to the the badly played piece of music "Once a Jolly Swagman" when it was played. They cry and leave the room.

  • @arnystieber732
    @arnystieber7323 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation and examples!

  • @akanjioluwadara662
    @akanjioluwadara6626 ай бұрын

    What an awesome lecture! I love the presentation!

  • @imb4u8debbu37
    @imb4u8debbu375 жыл бұрын

    Great talk Alan. See you at the Contra Dance for some tunes. 🎶🎻

  • @Meandmymirror
    @Meandmymirror Жыл бұрын

    I want to bring music to nursing homes by letting them put headphones on and then playing the music of their era. But I’m not a music therapist and I don’t even know how to begin to do what I want to do

  • @nathan_abela
    @nathan_abela4 жыл бұрын

    Best talk I have heard in a while; true gentleman!

  • @marcsantamaria4097
    @marcsantamaria40972 жыл бұрын

    I love music and this just confirms what many of us already know. But I married someone who has no interest in music. I wish we could connect through music, but it's just not going to happen. Honestly asking for advice. I'm not trying to change her, I just wish she knew the power of music. Thanks.

  • @womaninblack8333
    @womaninblack8333 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely loved this

  • @marythorpe4331
    @marythorpe4331 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Thank you.

  • @skullslick
    @skullslick4 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could know what views or opinion Mr. Alan Harvey has towards the musical standard tuning of 432.00 being changed to 440.00...I know what facts are, I'm looking for testimony. Thanks for the lesson TEDx Talks.

  • @HIGHLANDER_ONLY_ONE
    @HIGHLANDER_ONLY_ONE3 жыл бұрын

    Love it!!! 🎶

  • @Natsymons
    @Natsymons4 жыл бұрын

    Great talk Alan!

  • @JussiTuukkanen
    @JussiTuukkanen4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @lewisnewton412
    @lewisnewton4125 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @MrBones-db5bh
    @MrBones-db5bh4 жыл бұрын

    Music's my entire my burning desire!!! my DMT, ayahuasca symphony number 3 delta alpha Beethoven Mozart were right !!!!

  • @dineshnaik3802
    @dineshnaik38023 жыл бұрын

    BECAUSE OF MY TEACHER I AM HERE🖤🖤

  • @noemicaban9251
    @noemicaban92512 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!! Thanks!

  • @Meandmymirror
    @Meandmymirror Жыл бұрын

    This was amazing! It’s like I knew all of that but I didn’t really understand why. I still don’t understand why I know the lyrics to so many songs.

  • @carliecotton9219
    @carliecotton921911 ай бұрын

    Just absolutely awesome!

  • @estefaniahernandez4188
    @estefaniahernandez41883 жыл бұрын

    Love it!!

  • @great-garden-watch
    @great-garden-watch2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for making me cry jeez. Well all irish music…

  • @kevinreed95
    @kevinreed955 жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful. Thank you!

  • @qwer1234721
    @qwer12347213 жыл бұрын

    Very inspiring!

  • @Ivanchek_
    @Ivanchek_2 жыл бұрын

    Justo las vocales que buscaba

  • @Chris_2023_
    @Chris_2023_7 ай бұрын

    Brilliant video!

  • @vaidakas2684
    @vaidakas26842 ай бұрын

    I think calming music should be used in the emergency rooms for patients who are sitting in pain and waiting for hours to see the doctor.

  • @tommyjohnson8016
    @tommyjohnson80162 жыл бұрын

    Very good thank you ted.

  • @vijayalakshmigopinath8476
    @vijayalakshmigopinath84763 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Speech. Thank. You. Very much. Sir

  • @noahwalsh7881

    @noahwalsh7881

    Жыл бұрын

    *You Have A Pretty Cool Name*

  • @jbridges399
    @jbridges3994 жыл бұрын

    so this is why when I quit listening to music for days I feel my mental clarity go through the roof and I feel smarter

  • @JackHernandezGentlemanJack

    @JackHernandezGentlemanJack

    4 жыл бұрын

    Quit listening and start making!

  • @gokuljayakumar619
    @gokuljayakumar6193 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful presentation. :)

  • @sujayasuj
    @sujayasuj Жыл бұрын

    Interesting talk, music feeds the soul! What I am interested in knowing is does the electrodes also pick up the sound of the music played directly or it only reads the internal vibrations of the brain? Thank you, appreciate your knowledge and information Mr Harvey!

  • @Ojuolape
    @Ojuolape2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @corryjookit7818
    @corryjookit78183 жыл бұрын

    I have all of the list re memory etc except mproved mathematic skills. . Long lasting effects seemsgreat !

  • @AdhiyogaSystem
    @AdhiyogaSystem Жыл бұрын

    I love this.

  • @flowerbunny3225
    @flowerbunny32253 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely awesome. Just what I was looking for. Thank you

  • @NormanPrather
    @NormanPrather2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating talk about something I've been researching as a personal interest. Relatively recent life events led to the realization my experience of music is different from those around me. I've been astonished to learn music either reinforces or creates emotional experiences for most people. I've never experienced that and still find this difficult to comprehend.

  • @skullslick
    @skullslick4 жыл бұрын

    PS - This a question not a challenge...thank you again!

  • @akshaypatyal3228
    @akshaypatyal32282 жыл бұрын

    great presentation

  • @CeleneSantos
    @CeleneSantos3 жыл бұрын

    If dreams came true, mine would be to attend a class of yours or be part of your research team

  • @philmanson2991
    @philmanson299110 ай бұрын

    Any time a movie score goes to a minor key, you know something bad is about to happen. I believe humans are hard-wired for music, even is some cannot sing nor play an instrument. We can tell when a sound is consonant or dissonant. Heck, the I-#5 interval was called the "Devil's Note" and was not sung for centuries!! Then, the 20th century dawned, and dissonance was cool: bebop, free jazz, prog rock, composers like Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, the list is endless!

  • @BEASTYBYRD
    @BEASTYBYRD4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video, but I demand an explanation for why they are using Windows XP during the EEG.... IN 2018!!!

  • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
    @Starry_Night_Sky74554 жыл бұрын

    We also benefit from quietness, and public places that have far less piped in formula music.

  • @devingomez2346
    @devingomez23463 жыл бұрын

    This is really cool

  • @zacharysnavely4961
    @zacharysnavely49614 жыл бұрын

    I think you are amazing

  • @regotrorawespazing6897
    @regotrorawespazing68972 жыл бұрын

    @7:11 man absolutely felt the pressure 😅

  • @jarrahtree5130
    @jarrahtree51304 жыл бұрын

    No waaaay! This was hosted in Perth? PSO played in this? Waaaaat!?

  • @TerraExodus
    @TerraExodus10 ай бұрын

    The sound of angels is most pleasing. Just don't get lost in the siren's song.

  • @the_roblox_queen1349
    @the_roblox_queen13494 жыл бұрын

    WOW music

  • @topman8565
    @topman85654 жыл бұрын

    I love this song

  • @ineshomemdemelo9254
    @ineshomemdemelo92542 жыл бұрын

    Why isn't there more music in hospitals? :((

  • @barbelreuter6117
    @barbelreuter61173 жыл бұрын

    Ich glaube an die Heilkraft von Musik, Lachen, Weinen 😢, 🙏

  • @cristiansosa1512
    @cristiansosa1512 Жыл бұрын

    8:47 off-topic but I loved how they still were using Windows XP.

  • @jhotasouza
    @jhotasouza3 жыл бұрын

    Fantástico

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