Aaron Thomas

Professor Jizi
UWRIT 1103
Works Cited

Ball, Philip. "Misterioso: All In the Mind." The Music Instinct How Music Works And Why We
Can't Do Without It. New York: Oxford UP, n.d. 241-43. Print.

It was long thought the music stimulates various parts of the brain but due to the
advancements in technology, the parts of the brain stimulated is now able to be pictured. With
magnetic resonance imaging, people are able to visualize which parts of the brain react to the
different stimulations. With auditory or visual stimulation, a certain part of the brain will react.
However, when a person listens to music the entire brain will light up. All parts of the brain will
react to music. Unlike visual or auditory senses, music has no specific area of the brain it will
stimulate. This information is both a blessing and a curse for researchers. On the positive side, no
other types of stimulation use the entire brain to process the information, on the negative side it
makes it harder to see how specifically the brain reacts to music since the entire brain is being
used.
This article is helpful for my topic because it shows that there is a correlation between
listening to music and the affects it has on the brain. The article is weak in the sense that it is
repetitive. For example, it talks about music being the only stimuli to use the entire brain over
and over. However, that is a valuable piece of information and there is still an entire book to get
information from.

I believe my source for this information is reliable. I was able to fill all the information
necessary on Easybib. The publisher, Oxford University Press, is a reputable source. There are no
broad statements and the information goes into specifics.

Lemonick, Michael D. "Music on the Brain." TIME. Time Inc, 28 May 2000. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.

The topic of how music affects the brain is a small but growing field. Scientists
however know that music does affect the brain. They believe that the ability to react and feel
music is deeply engrained in our nervous system. Although the right hemisphere was thought to
be heavily related to music perception it is know shown that no part of the brain specifically
understands music. Instead different neurons understand different aspects of music. For example,
various neurons will be used to understand music with lyrics, while other neurons are used to
understand instrumental music and other neurons are used when playing an instrument. It is also
shown that brain disorders can affect how we perceive music in very specific ways. For example
when patients suffering from epilepsy temporal lobe, the part of the brain that understands
auditory stimuli, was stimulated they remembered extremely vivid memories of listening to
music.
This article helped more than the last article. While the last article talked about music
being the only stimuli that used the entire brain to understand, this article got more into the
specifics. It talked about how different disorders affected how we understand music and how
deaf people understood music. This article mainly gave examples of the different way music
affects the brain which will be helpful in a later process

This article is a credible source. Time magazine is a reputable source and while filling out
each section in EasyBib, I was able to locate all the information in the magazine. The author cites
all the sources he used during the article and all the information is specific and not just a broad
generalization of the topic. Although the information was published in 2000 the information is
still reliable, we have just delved deeper into the specifics of how music works with the brain.

How Music Affects Your Brain. Perf. Anthony Carboni. YouTube. Discovery News, 2 Mar. 2013.
Web. 17 Nov. 2015.

Scientists have researched and found that our brainwaves try to resonate with the beat of music.
Due to this phenomenon our heartbeat, breath and brainwaves all try to match the beat of the
music we listen to. The only creatures known to do this type of action is songbirds and human.
Because we are the only creatures to do this, it is thought the ability to perceive music is
engrained in a neurological level. Each human being is thought to have a dominant hemisphere,
whether it be the left hemisphere or the right hemisphere, humans usually have one dominant
side. However, people who research into the topic of music are shown to have equally dominant
sides, therefore using both sides equally.

This source has been very beneficial in my research. Unlike the other sources it delves much
deeper into the specifics of the research. Not only does it show the positive side that music
has on the brain but it also shows a negative side as well. This source also shows how certain
types of music in different ways. For example, when a person listens to mellow or classical
music, there is a release of serotonin.

This is a reliable source. After watching the video, I clicked in the description and all the
information stated in the video was sited with links to the websites. The publisher of the source is
Discovery Channel, which is a reliable source for information. The source also followed the
checklist for credibility.

Reynolds, Gretchen. "Phys Ed: Does Music Make You Exercise Harder?" The New York Times.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., 25 Aug. 2010. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.

British researchers had a study on how music affects exercise. Twelve men were brought in for
this study and they listened to three songs, a normal version of the song, a slowed down version,
and a sped up version. While each man listened to the song they were required to cycle on a
bicycle machine. The studies showed that they did not like the music while slowed down and
their performance decreased however when the men listened to the sped up version of the song
their performance increased and all the men liked the song.

I think this source will help out on the paper because it is a very specific piece of information and
it is another example of an experiment. Because this source is so specific it shows a direct
correlation between the brain and music.

This source is reliable because it was published by The New York Times, which is a reliable
Source. Also the information is relatively new because it was published in 2013. This source also
follows the guidelines of credibility.

Hicks, George. "How Playing Music Affects The Developing Brain." Examined Existence.
CommonHealth, 17 July 2014. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.

There has been controversy within in the scientific community. While it was thought that
listening to classical music such as Mozart, ones IQ will increase. However, some scientists do
not agree with such claims. They find it hard to believe that listening to music will increase ones
IQ. There has been studies however that playing an instrument will improve the capabilities of
Other actions.

I think this is an okay source. I will probably end up changing this source for the final annotated
Bibliography. I do not know how I would implement this information into my paper. This is
Information is very little and is a broad generalization.

I do not know if this source is reliable or not. Although it comes from an organization I am not
One-hundred percent sure that it is reliable. It follows most of the checklist for credibility but I
am still unsure. Because I have doubts, I will probably end up switching the source.