Music and Science

Music is one of our own ways of coping up with the different stress life gives us and on the other hand, science is one thing to be considered from all stress and deprivations that we get. Basically, it's a give and take between the both, a relationship to be noticed and a system to be observed.

Studies show that people who have undergone music training have higher reasoning skills and motor skills. This only is a proof that science is closely related to music. These two areas in particular are quite removed from musical training as we imagine it, so it’s fascinating to see how learning to play an instrument can help kids develop such a wide variety of important skills.

Also one study shows that our preference of music shows what type of person we are. In a study of couples who spent time getting to know each other, looking at each other’s top 10 favorite songs actually provided fairly reliable predictions as to the listener’s personality traits. The study used five personality traits for the test: openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability.

Interestingly, some traits were more accurately predicted based on the person’s listening habits than others. For instance, openness to experience, extraversion, and emotional stability were the easiest to guess correctly. Conscientiousness, on the other hand, wasn’t obvious based on musical taste.

Basing from the above stated, it is clear that science really does something to music. And on the other hand music really jives in with science.