{"id":2970,"date":"2019-06-10T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chirnsideparkps.vic.edu.au\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2019-06-10T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:02:43","slug":"in-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srkilsyth.catholic.edu.au\/upschool\/guest-contributors\/in-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"In Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2970\" class=\"elementor elementor-2970\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-beb331e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"beb331e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-371ae8c2\" data-id=\"371ae8c2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-736ce2ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"736ce2ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1>In Sync<\/h1><p>Music could hold the key to improving student engagement and learning.<br \/>Could listening to music before classroom tasks enhance the social and emotional bonds of students, enhance cognitive function and improve the overall health and wellbeing of our kids?<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Music influences our thoughts, feelings and emotions, and it can also increase our ability to consolidate and store memories, learn new things and increase our social and emotional intelligence. When infant children are exposed to music with play, studies show their speech patterns, theory of mind and the ability to predict rhythms are enhanced.<\/p><p class=\"p2\">Sharing music, making music and dancing with music makes us closer in physical proximity but it also means our brains are closer too. Science proves that the quality of music we listen to, sharing the listening experience and making music brings us closer together by syncing our brain waves, changing our chemistry and helping us work in unison.<\/p><h2 class=\"p1\">Music And Dementia<\/h2><p class=\"p1\">In 2014 a man named Dan Cohen along with a team of healthcare visionaries set out to document the effects music could have on the memories of Dementia patients in the United States. The film, &#8216;Alive Inside&#8217; chronicles the lives and experiences of various dementia patients have when given iPods with the music they like to listen to.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The result was startling as Dan and nursing staff watched patients previously locked in the minds, inert and silent suddenly light up and begin singing along to their music. In the moments after listening to familiar songs, the patients were able to retrieve memories long forgotten and communicate them to Dan and the nursing staff at the rest homes.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">This documentary spearheaded research into how music activates areas of the brain associated with memory and emotion. Scientists know that music hs the potential to increase working memory and in the case of dementia patients help in the retrieval of memories, the management of behavioural problems and can assist with coordination, verbal communication, cognition and overall wellbeing.<\/p><div class=\"content__header tonal__header\"><div class=\"u-cf\"><h1 class=\"logo\" data-shrink-original-size=\"29\">Alive Inside<\/h1><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aliveinside.us\/#land\">http:\/\/www.aliveinside.us\/#land<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"summary-excerpt\"><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alive Inside &#8211; Alzheimers Documentary<br \/>ALIVE INSIDE\u00a0is a joyous cinematic exploration of music\u2019s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.<\/span><\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alive Inside Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Alzheimer&#039;s Documentary HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IaB5Egej0TQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><p class=\"p2\"><b>Dan Cohen,\u00a0<\/b>MSW, is the founding Executive Director of Music &amp; Memory, Inc. He combines an extensive background in high tech training,\u00a0corporate sales and software applications with social work, specialising in vocational rehabilitation and community service organising.<\/p><\/div><h2><img src=\"http:\/\/upschoolv2.digitalschools.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/in-sync-middle-banner.jpg\" \/><\/h2><h2>Two Minds Really Do Think Alike<\/h2><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannedikker.net\/projects\">Suzanne Dikker<\/a><\/span> cognitive neuroscientist explores the interaction between art, concentration and mental synchronicity to understand our social connections and our behaviour.<\/p><p>Her projects include the use of EEG (\u00a0electroencephalogram ) to study the brains of high school students. She discovers that students who&#8217;s brain waves are in synch feel a greater sense of wellbeing in the classroom, perform better cogntively and show high classroom engagement.<\/p><div class=\"content__header tonal__header\"><div class=\"u-cf\"><h1 class=\"logo\" data-shrink-original-size=\"29\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannedikker.net\/\">SUZANNE DIKKER<\/a><\/span><\/h1><div class=\"logo-subtitle\" data-shrink-original-size=\"12\">cognitive neuroscience | art | ed<\/div><\/div><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"summary-title\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a class=\"summary-title-link\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannedikker.net\/science#dynamicclassroominteractions\">DYNAMIC CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"summary-excerpt\"><p>with David Poeppel, Dana Bevilacqua, Lu Wan, Mingzhou Ding, Lisa Kaggen, Ido Davidesco &amp; Matthias Oostrik<\/p><p>We work with high schools to investigate the brain basis of classroom interactions. Students are involved in the design and execution of the research and participate as experimental subjects while we record their brain activity during their regular classes.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannedikker.net\/projects\">http:\/\/www.suzannedikker.net\/projects<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"content__header tonal__header\"><div class=\"u-cf\"><h2 class=\"article-title\">Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Bonds<\/h2><p>Why would human evolution have given us music? New research says the answer may lie in our drive to connect.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4179700\/\">According to researchers<\/a><\/span>, when we try to synch with others musically\u2014keeping the beat or harmonizing, for example\u2014we tend to feel positive social feelings towards those with whom we\u2019re synchronizing, even if that person is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24805849\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">not visible<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to us or not in the same room.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/four_ways_music_strengthens_social_bonds\">https:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/four_ways_music_strengthens_social_bonds<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class=\"content__header tonal__header\"><div class=\"u-cf\"><div class=\"row title\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-9\"><h1 class=\"page-title\">Synchronised brainwaves a sign of positive feelings<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12\"><hr \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row standfirst\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-9\"><p class=\"page-standfirst\">A classroom study finds that brainwave synchronization is a reliable marker of interpersonal feelings and class engagement, writes Andrew Masterson.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>Why would human evolution have given us music? New research says the answer may lie in our drive to connect.<\/p><p>In a report\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(17)30411-6\">published in the journal\u00a0<\/a><\/span><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(17)30411-6\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Current Biology<\/span><\/a><\/i>, Dikker and her colleagues establish that brain synchronisation between students is a reliable marker of how well they like each other, and how they feel about the lesson they are undertaking.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/biology\/synchronised-brainwaves-a-sign-of-positive-feelings\">https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/biology\/synchronised-brainwaves-a-sign-of-positive-feelings<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"content__header tonal__header\"><div class=\"u-cf\"><div class=\"row title\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-9\"><h1 class=\"page-title\">Synchronised brainwaves a sign of positive feelings<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12\"><hr \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row standfirst\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-9\"><p class=\"page-standfirst\">A classroom study finds that brainwave synchronisation is a reliable marker of interpersonal feelings and class engagement, writes Andrew Masterson.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>Why would human evolution have given us music? New research says the answer may lie in our drive to connect.<\/p><p>In a report\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(17)30411-6\">published in the journal\u00a0<\/a><\/span><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(17)30411-6\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Current Biology<\/span><\/a><\/i>, Dikker and her colleagues establish that brain synchronisation between students is a reliable marker of how well they like each other, and how they feel about the lesson they are undertaking.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/biology\/synchronised-brainwaves-a-sign-of-positive-feelings\">https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/biology\/synchronised-brainwaves-a-sign-of-positive-feelings<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Guest Contributor:<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0Emily Rack<br \/><\/i><b><i>Business Name:<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horatiosjar.com.au\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Horatio<\/i><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\"><i>\u2019<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horatiosjar.com.au\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>s Jar<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><i><br \/><\/i><b><i>Publisher:<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0Digital Schools<\/i><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><i>Emily Rack is a yoga teacher, meditation instructor, freelance writer and visual content creator. 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