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Interlude XLVIII: Why Music Regulates Faster Than Language
Why does music calm the body, change emotion, and organize collective experience faster than words ever can?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the neuroscience of music, rhythm, and emotional regulation. Drawing on research from Stefan Koelsch, Aniruddh Patel, and Daniel Levitin, this episode examines how musical timing, limbic processing, and dopamine-based reward systems allow music to influence the nervous system before language has time to interpret meaning.
While language requires semantic decoding and cognitive analysis, music enters the brain…
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