Dr. David Bashwiner

They're beautiful, and that's... An anthropologist named Ellen Desnayake has...

focused on addressing this question about emotions and music solely through like mother-infant communication and about how much magic goes on in there and how much of what we do in theater and music as adults is really just like grows right out of parent-infant communication.

I know, it's beautiful.

Yeah, it's different.

White noise is like all frequencies...

And then different colors of noise just filter out, like they make quieter in certain ranges.

Almost like if you put your hands over the speaker and kind of muted it in some way, you would still hear some of the frequencies coming out and some of them would not be.

I don't know, I listen to brown noise just because it's like the deepest, but I usually have to drown out

can't focus while I'm hearing music.

So if I work at the cafe, I know it's ridiculous.

I have really loud noise cancelling.

I have really loud noise coming through noise cancelling headphones.

It's so stupid.

What kind of noise?

Yeah, I listen to brown noise.

Yeah, it's a beautiful question.

The one thing that I find really interesting about this, it might be a little bit irrelevant.

If you're looking at the neuroscience of creativity, older people, when they go through a phase of frontotemporal dementia, often go through a really creative period, and it's often musical.

And that probably has something to do with a little bit of reducing inhibition from the frontal lobes.

back to inhibition onto the temporal lobes.