Neuroscience for Kids - The Musical Brain

You might enjoy a wide variety of musical genres, only a few, or none at all. Your brain determines your musical preferences and finds a way to make sense of music. Music is essentially just sound at its most basic level, created by vibration. These vibrations can come from voices, musical instruments, or things crashing into one another. Changes in air pressure are what transmit sound to the ear. The fundamental elements of music include melody, rhythm, pitch, and quality of sound. In this fantastic website created by the University of Washington, various resources and informative articles are curated in one spot. You can explore the nervous system, explore experiments or neuroscience activities, or read up on research related to music and the brain.