Music has a good feeling of excitement such as in child development, brain functioning, intelligence, and cognitive abilities. Many scholars are researching on the effect of music on peoples’ minds, and many schools have a session to play music every day with the preschool kids. Music and arts are essential components of education and should be incorporated into the curriculum. Music has several benefits in our minds such as language mastery, intellectual development, and readiness to read.

Music can modify somebody’s behavior as many researchers have discovered, and everybody including the educators, legislators, and leaders are appreciating the role of music in shaping peoples’ lives. An experiment in neuroscience and cognitive science find a good relationship between music and humans mental and the functioning of the human brain in cognitive ability. Children can remember the music pitches and contours especially in melodies, which can help them remember what happened earlier in the day. The brain has the basic musical building blocks such as the neurons that are sensitive to tone pitch, rhythms, complex harmonic relationships, and melodic contours. For instance, the left hemisphere of the brain can process melody and the right one process language. Children have brains that understands music just like adults and enjoy music in their early life stages. Through listening and paying attention to music, children develop both communication, self-expression, and cognition. Students were playing music benefit as it promotes the simultaneous senses engagement. The muscles and the brain also have a share of the real effect of the music. Scans taken in the brain during musical performances show that the cerebral cortex is normally active throughout the playing period. Therefore, music engages the brain synapses and improves its capacity through neuron connectivity.

Researchers found that music improves reading performances especially in the 1st graders as the experimental group showed high scores in academics than the control group. Engaging in music through learning and performances exercises the brain by strengthening the synapses between the cells of the brain. The specific pitch training in music enhances the reading and the understanding capacity of the students. The ability of a student to recognize words in music leads to the improvement of the sounding-out stage increasing the student’s ability to rad. Research has shown that a correlation exist between the way students read standard and phonic and pitch discrimination. Changing the pitch helps in conveying word information and good pitch discrimination has a positive effect on the second phonemic stage of learning in children.

Music has a big effect on reasoning in human beings especially the keyboard training in the preschool children. According to research, music and keyboard training enhances reasoning and learning of subjects such as mathematics and other sciences. The spatial-temporal reasoning is important in achieving good performance in education. In infants, music increases their reasoning capacity through perception and cognitive processing of music components. The human brain has identifiable musical building blocks, and music exercises the brain cells and their synaptic interconnections thus facilitating intellectual reasoning. Many people become creative and express themselves through music was thereby increasing their self-confidence.

Psychologically, music has a soothing effect on human beings, and a solo musical rhythm calm give a feeling of calmness to an individual. Mother use music in several cases to soothe their babies and calm them to sleep. Music also soothes and comforts people as the brain is entertained by the rhythm. For instance, people moving down a street with loud music find themselves walking to the beat as the music and others swing their heads. Music has the effect of keeping away anxiety and depression especially the fast beats if somebody is in a low state of mind. Individuals should select music depending on their mood to avoid more disappointment, which can lead to stress. Music also helps to divert the mind when doing work that involves a lot of physical activities, which helps in making the work more soulful. Music has a great effect in reducing chronic stress by balancing the hormones to enhance the mood. Students use music while studying to improve their attention and improve their learning.

Music has a great effect on the minds of individuals in many ways such as behavior and the cognitive nature of human beings. Children develop communication skills by listening to music, and some can express themselves freely. Music also has a soothing effect and mothers use it to calm their children while other people use it to fight depression and stress. Music also improves the reading capability of students by increasing their attention when reading.