Most efficiently the brain works in silence
Researchers from the Stanford University have carried out research of work of the brain getting the information from the continuous stream from an external world.
Scientists played fragments from pieces of music of XVIII century which contained some precise intervals between rather short parts.
Ten men and eight women listened to the music in headphones, thus their brain was scanned with the help of magnetic resonance tomography.
Scientists have found out that music switches on parts of the brain connected with attention and forecasting. The brain divided the information into important parts, taking the information about the beginning, the ending and borders between them.
Intervals between musical parts appeared perfect conditions for studying dynamically varying activity of the brain. The peak of brain activity has fallen to the short period of silence between musical fragments.