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》  Music psychology is a field of research with practical relevance for many areas, including music performance, composition, education, criticism, and therapy, as well as investigations of human attitude, skill, performance, intelligence, creativity, and social behavior.

》  Research suggests that background music, or music that is played while the listener is primarily focused on another activity, can improve performance on cognitive tasks in older adults. One study found that playing more upbeat music led to improvements in processing speed, while both upbeat and downbeat music led to benefits in memory.

》  According to one study, people who ate at low-lit restaurants where soft music was played consumed 18% less food than those who ate in other restaurants.

》  Research has shown that music can be very helpful in the management of pain. One study of fibromyalgia patients found that those who listened to music for just one hour a day experienced a significant reduction in pain compared to those in a control group.

》 Researchers at the University of Texas have proof that musicians are better adept to remember things from the past.

》Listening to our favorite songs will make us happy, which is indicated by the following:

Dilated pupils

Rising blood pressure

Faster pulse

Lowered electrical conductance on the skin

Activation of areas of the brain involved in physical movement

》  A 2015 review of research on the effects of music on pain management found that patients who listened to music before, during, or even after surgery experienced less pain and anxiety than those who did not listen to music.

》  In a study looking at college students, participants listened to classical music, an audiobook, or nothing at all at bedtime for three weeks. Researchers assessed sleep quality both before and after the intervention.
The study found that participants who had listened to Classical music (not music with words) had significantly better sleep quality than those who had listened to the audiobook or received no intervention.

》  Just as music can uplift your mood, a song may also ruin your mood. When we listen to music, we hear rhythm and a tone. While listening to a rhythm, our heart beat falls in sync. When a rhythm is slow and a tone is sad, our heart rate will tell our brain that we feel sad or depressed. Because of this, genre is everything. Music can control an environment.

》  The Journal of Neuroscience published a study according to which learning music promotes neural processes which prevent ADHD.

》  For many artists, lyrics are a journal entry from someone's brain. They may written from experience or from someone else's experience. Because of this, we get to learn about an artist's life and how they think about the world around them. It may be an inside perspective that you otherwise never would be able to hear about.

》  A study published in The Royal Society , shows that women looking for men to date, tend to lean more towards talented musicians.

》  Empathetic people tend to listen and feel music differently than others. Highly empathetic people have some interesting brain patterns that make them more sensitive to words and sounds than listeners who don't identify as empathetic. This could mean that most big music buffs are empathetic humans.

》 There's a thing called music therapy where licensed professionals help people with brain damage, heart problems, or with many different physical issues through the power of music. It's especially useful for people who have trouble speaking or comprehending language, whether because of a stroke or some other brain injury.

》 Therapists use a style of singing with certain rhythms that can help bring back the cadence of speech.

》  The right side of the brain processes music while the left side processes language, so music therapy can help bridge the gap between the two. Music helps create new neurological pathways.

》  Listening to music, and a whole range of frequencies makes musicians less prone to hearing disabilities.

Apart from using Sound Therapy to cure several hearing related diseases, researchers have established that listening to music helps people keep hearing disabilities at bay. The constant exposure to different frequencies of sound is the reason for this.

》 According to a study, music lovers will excel better at Geometry because of their talents of spatial reasoning.

》 Classical music helps in improving the IQ of the listener.
Though what kind of music you listen to is determined by a lot of factors, it is scientifically proven that people who love classical music have more grey matter than those who listen to pop music or no music at all.

》  Researchers have found that the ability to pick a rhythm allows musicians to learn a language more easily than others.

》  Songs which you have never heard before, help you drive safer on the road.
This study published in Science Direct , analysed the effect of music on drivers. They found out that people made more mistakes while listening to familiar songs. On the other hand, a specially made composition helped them drive better.