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Brigitte King

Professor Navarro
COM 180
25 September 2014
Informative Speech Outline
Title/Topic: Music's effect on the brain
Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about what happens to the brain when someone listens
to music.
Thesis Statement: Music has a physiological effect on your brain while you listen to it.
INTRODUCTION
I. Attention Getter: I'm going to ask all of you to close your eyes. Okay, now picture your
favorite song. Think of the tune, the melody, the sound of the instruments, the singer's
voice. Now open your eyes and think about how that song makes you feel. Excited?
Sad? Happy? Reminiscent? What if I told you that music actually affects your brain?
II. Thesis Statement: Music has a physiological effect on your brain while you listen to it.
III. Overview of Main Points: Today I will talk to you about how music that we like effects
our brains, the dopamine releases and actual health benefits from listening to music.
IV. Background Information: I plan on going to medical school to study neuroscience so I
spend a lot of time researching anything about the brain.
BODY
I. A study by Valorie Salimpoor shows that music physically effects our brains.
A. The nucleus accumbens, which is the part of our brain that forms expectations, is
directly connected to listening to music.
i. The more you like a song, the more activity is shown in the nucleus
accumbens.
B. The superior temporal gyrus is formed in relationship to what kind of music we
listen to.
i. This part of the brain does not show what type of music you will like or
listen to, but it stores information about what we have listened to before.
C. According to Daniel Abrams, when you like a song, regardless of who you are or
what kind of music you like, your brain experiences music the same as everyone
else.
i. While our brain hears music through auditory processing, we experience
in brain regions involving movement, attention, planning and memory
(Not only does music affect the brain physically, but it affects it chemically as well.)
II. Music causes a chemical called dopamine to be released in our brain.
A. Karen Hopkin reports that dopamine, the same neurotransmitter that's released by
eating a cupcake or doing cocaine, is released while listening to music.
i. The dopamine released in our brains while listening to music can cause
goose bumps and a change in mood.
(Now, you know that music can cause changes in your brain physically and chemically, but
music actually helps your health.)
III. Music actually has some health benefits.
A. Daniel Levitin did an experiment and showed that listening to music lowers
cortisol, the stress causing hormone, better than anti-anxiety medications
i. Music can actually lower your stress and calm you down before tests,
surgeries, or even giving a speech.
B. Listening to music is linked to the production of immunoglobulin A, an antibody
that's associated with immunity.
CONCLUSION
I. Summary of Main Points: Music can physically change our brain's functioning and
growth, affect hormones released in the brain and also improve our health.
II. Restatement of Central Idea: The music that we listen to has a strong effect on our brain.
III. Memorable Concluding Remarks: So everyone close your eyes and think of your favorite
song again, that feeling you're getting is from the way that music affects your brain.
References:
Hopkin, Karen. "Musical Chills Related to Brain Dopamine Release." Scientific American
Global RSS. Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc., 09 Jan. 2011. Web.
20 Sept. 2014.
Landau, Elizabeth. "This Is Your Brain On Music." CNN. Cable News Network, 15 Apr. 2013.
Web. 20 Sept. 2014.
McGilchrist, Sonya. "Music 'releases Mood-enhancing Chemical in the Brain'" BBC News. BBC
News, 09 Jan. 2011. Web. 20 Sept. 2014.

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