Throughout this semester, I’ve indulged myself in researching more about the topics surrounding multisensory rooms. After a few months, the specific tools and techniques that require music really piqued my interest. Therefore, I spent the last few weeks researching music theory, how it works, its effects, down to its very origin.
Learning that music theory began from the research on songbirds and how they use music and a specific part of their brains to re-remember the songs they sing every season, I plan to read a lot more sources involving research on songbirds and how they related to the part of our brain affected by Alzheimer’s.
https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/447048
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2650497/
Through the next few months of summer break, to understand how we could potentially use music to “heal” a human brain, I plan to read more of these papers that talk about how different brain diseases affect the brain.