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b'Learn how to use music to improve brain health, manage mood, increase relational happiness and get tips on how to build neural plasticity through this art. Remember, it\\u2019s not just cotton candy for the ears!\\nDr. Ann Kelley and Sue Marriott discuss the deeper meaning behind people\\u2019s responses to music on the brain, and how music affects happiness and mood. How can we purposely manipulate our mood with tunes and lyrics in terms of motivation, distraction, synchronicity and stimulation? How is music a form of social architecture and how do we interact with it individually and as a whole? You\\u2019ll learn how specific music choices can directly impact relationships, emotional state and overall mental health.\\nThis is a soft part 1 to Episode 45, so you will likely want to check out our interview with Austin Music Legend Bob Schneider as he talks about the creative process music and emotion here!\\n0:23 \\u2013 Bodily reaction to \\u201cBohemian Rhapsody\\u201d by Queen. Thinking of music as social architecture for the brain rather than \\u201ccotton candy for the ears\\u201d or just entertainment.\\n1:26 \\u2013 Response to music on the brain can be considered an extreme version of \\u201cneural wi-fi\\u201d. How do we use music to get what we want?\\n1:54 \\u2013 How music affects the brain. Auditory cortex, motor cortex, memory, right brain experience are all activated by music. Different responses from music we like vs. music we don\\u2019t like.\\n3:08 \\u2013 Lou Cozolino: When default mode network is activated, that is deeply reflective mental state (meditation, etc.), which in turn is good for mental health. Music that we like/dislike activates/deactivates the default mode network.\\n4:24 \\u2013 Human and songbird study: Music creating limericks of love for human stimulates similar response for mating calls in songbirds.\\n5:23 \\u2013 Workout music as basis/distraction for motor movement\\n5:38 \\u2013David Levinson (Your Brain on Music) and his study on how we use music. Compared families who played music together versus those who didn\\u2019t. When you play music out loud in the same room, your relationship becomes stronger. You sit closer, you spend more time together, and 2/3 more sex.\\n6:55 \\u2013 Recommendation about music as social architecture: Get a cheap Bluetooth speaker for your home!\\n7:53 \\u2013 Psychology of listening to music in humans. Primal gathering, problem resolving, protest music, cultural change and lullaby. Psychology of lullaby as regulating both mother and child\\u2019s mental state through right brain activation.\\n10:52 \\u2013 Bodily response to \\u201cAmazing Grace\\u201d by Straight No Chaser. Sense of awe can be extrapolated from prolactin processing sorrow.\\n12:56 \\u2013 Bodily response to \\u201cLong Ride Home \\u201c by Patty Griffin. Simultaneous processing of music and lyrics. Humans are wired to hear stories.\\n13:58 \\u2013 Synching up with the rhythm of the music in our minds just like synching up moods. Idea of synching up when losing a musical artist, e.g. Prince. Narrative songwriting synchs up with our emotional and analytical parts of brain.\\n15:50 \\u2013 Part of what makes a hit song is the unexpected element since brains are anticipation machines.\\n17:00 \\u2013 USC research on \\u201cchills\\u201d to music finds that in terms of responses to music, there are more dense fibers from the auditory system to the emotional processing system in people who get chills from music.\\n17:57 \\u2013 How music affects motivation and Ann\\u2019s emotional response to \\u201cGonna Fly Now\\u201d by Bill Conti. Auditory stimulation and subsequent memory of visual response to Rocky as example of social architecture. You can manipulate your mood intentionally through music\\n22:16 \\u2013 Anticipation and dopamine of unpredictable music selections. Random music of your favorites affects your mood state the whole time.\\n23:40 \\u2013 You can link a favorite song to a memory, but if you listen to the song again and again,'