THE BEAT GOES ON
According to two Columbia University psychologists, there’s more of a difference between musicians and nonmusicians than meets the ear. They have demonstrated that musically sophisticated people actually “hear” music in the left hemisphere of the brain, while musical knownothings “hear” music in the right hemisphere.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Left, Right,Wrong, Right
According to two Columbia University psychologists, there’s more of a difference between musicians and nonmusicians than meets the ear.
They have demonstrated that musically sophisticated people actually “hear” music in the left hemisphere of the brain, while musical knownothings “hear” music in the right hemisphere. Apparently, the reason is that musical experts hear music in an analytic way and everyone else hears it in a kind of intuitive way. The left side of the brain handles all the heavy analytic processes, while the right side is assigned to things like intuition, emotion and dreaming.
To further complicate matters, the right side of the brain receives its sound impressions from the left ear, while the left side hears with the right ear. Musicians thus “hear” music primarily through the right ear, and others hear basically through the left ear.
One more thing: all this pertains only to right-handed people. Left-handed musicians usually hear with the left ear, just like right-handed musical dum dums.
Got it? Musicians to the right, everyone else to the left.
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