Human brain recognizes "classic" in just 300 milliseconds

The team from the School of Paediatrics at University College London recruited 10 volunteers, five men and five menThe participants each provided their five most familiar songs, and the researchers selected one of them, mixed with another melody, rhythm, harmonies, singing, or using a similar instrument, but the participants were not familiar with the song and played them at randomThe total duration of the music was 400 seconds, and in the process, the researchers used electroencephalograms to track the participants' brain responses and the pupil's pupil's change in diameter using pupil measurementswhen the brain is stimulated by a familiar melody that stimulates memory, people's pupils are magnified, and then the cerebral cortex is sensingThe results showed that all participants who heard a familiar melody of 100 to 300 milliseconds produced a pupil and cerebral cortex reaction, indicating that they quickly recognized their "nostalgic classics." The findings were published in the recently published journal Scientific Reportsresearchers say the findings could help advance research into the use of music for treatmentFor example, try music therapy to treat patients with amnesiaIf the human brain can be found with precision the neural pathways and processes that are familiar with music, then the development of thetherapy will be greatly advanced.