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Exercising to Music Pumps up Brain Power
If music makes you smarter, and exercise helps brain function, can exercising to music really boost brainpower? Some researchers said it can.
Volunteers who listened to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” while working out on a treadmill did much better on a test of 1 ability than when they exercised without music, a team at Ohio State 2 found.
“Evidence suggests that exercise improves the 3 performance of people with coronary artery disease,” said 4 Charles Emery, who led the study. “And listening to music is thought to 5 brainpower. We wanted to put the two results 6 ,” Emery added in a statement.
Writing in the latest issue of the journal Heart & Lung, Emery and 7 said they studied 33 men and women taking 8 in a cardiac rehabilitation program after having 9 surgery, angioplasty or other procedures to treat clogged arteries. The 10 said they felt better emotionally and mentally after 11 with or without the music. But their improvement on the verbal 12 test doubled after listening to music on the treadmills. “Exercise seems to 13 positive changes in the nervous system, and these changes may have a direct 14 on cognitive ability,” Emery said.
“Listening to music may influence cognitive 15 through different pathways in the brain. The combination of music and exercise may 16 and increase cognitive arousal while helping to 17 cognitive output.” Emery said he now wanted to test people 18 music of their own choice. “We used the ‘Four Seasons’ because of its 19 tempo and positive effects on medical patients in previous 20 ,” Emery said. “But given the range of music preferences among patients, it’s especially important to evaluate the influence of other types of music on cognitive outcomes.”
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