Larry Sherman

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178 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Something You Should Know · How Slowing Down Makes Life Better & Why Every Brain Needs Music · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And together, those effects in our brain lead to this sense of acceptance within the group.

And what's remarkable is the bigger the group, the bigger the effect on the individual.

So if you're singing in a barbershop quartet, it'll have a mild effect of acceptance.

But if you're singing in something like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, well, then it's huge.

So this is, again, these kind of powerful signals that our brain relates to music that is much stronger than language alone.

There's this remarkable study suggesting that there are actually neurons, nerve cells in the brain, in our auditory cortex, which is the first place that sound gets processed, that respond specifically to music.

Now, whether those cells were there all along or those cells came into being when we become exposed to music as children, for example, it's unsure.

It's uncertain.

But the fact that we actually have music-specific nerve cells tells me that music has this really powerful characteristic that just other forms of communication and sound don't have.

That's a really great question.

And when we develop music preference, usually in adolescence, and we have this kind of set set of preferences that go with us throughout life, although as we get older, our music preferences may change as we mature.

What we like to listen to the most is doing something a little different than music that we don't like to listen to or that we just think of as background music.

It's grabbing our attention in different ways.

So while I think our auditory processing and identification of music as music in that first part of the circuit is the same, once it gets past that, you have this response to this music that's emotional and very different than

music you don't like.

So I think that's all about preference and how preference is malleable.

So it changes our life.

But we always have these songs that just grab us, as opposed to other songs that we either don't like or just find boring.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, think about couples who all have their song.

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