You are the Music

which stated that playing loud music at bedtime helps a child to sleep deeply and with less disruption.

put the blame for my music addiction squarely on my dad.

The interesting thing is that your brain will show an MMN response whether or not you are paying attention to the sounds

The MMN is a particular brain wave pattern that happens in response to a change in an otherwise consistent sequence of environmental event

We are born musical because our first experiences of music are pre-birth, a

Music is a universal, human, dynamic, multi-purpose, sound signalling system.

morning. My dad’s beloved Celestion Ditton 66 speakers now take pride of place in my living room.

Not only am I addicted to music, I am also addicted to working out why I am addic

how they respond to all manner of external auditory stimuli, including sirens, animal cries or, as we shall see in a minute, aircraft take-off. So let’s leave the point of musical preference on one side for now.

long, lost summer

Darling, they’re playing our tune’
I love that this term in used in the scientific literature