Andrew Huberman· PhD
when you listen to music your frontal cortex increases inactivation because it is predicting what you're going to hear next based on what you're currently hearing and what you heard before
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when you listen to music your frontal cortex increases inactivation because it is predicting what you're going to hear next based on what you're currently hearing and what you heard before
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if you have a mixtape with a bunch of different songs sure you don't expect one song of a given artist to lead into the next but if you're somebody who listens to that mixtape a lot so you're familiar with What song comes next or if you're listening to a given album start to finish and you're very familiar with it well then you'll immediately resonate with what I'm saying here which is that your frontal cortex is always anticipating what sound is likely to come next