"All audible musical sound is given us for the sake of harmony, which has motions akin to the orbits in our soul, and which, as anyone who makes intelligent use of the arts knows, is not to be used, as is commonly thought, to give irrational pleasure, but as a heaven-sent ally in reducing to order and harmony any disharmony in the revolutions within us." -Plato Watch The Man With The Seven Second Memory On Real Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos Real Life: The Man With The Seven Second Memory by ITV Global Studios https://itvstudios.com/programmes/real-life-the-man-with-the-seven-second-memory *** LINKS AND SOURCES *** BOOKS Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks on Amazon http://geni.us/Musicophilia Music And The Mind by Anthony Storr on Amazon http://geni.us/MusicAndTheMind How Music Works by John Powell on Amazon http://geni.us/HowMusicWorks Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain on Amazon http://geni.us/MusicTheBrainEcstasy ARTICLES Brains Of Deaf People Rewire To ‘Hear’ Music by Walter Neary http://www.washington.edu/news/2001/11/27/brains-of-deaf-people-rewire-to-hear-music/ Kierkegarrd On Music https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/111983/H_Musicologica_27-1992-1_7.pdf?sequence=1 Thinking Sounds By Marcel Cobussen https://cobussen.com/research/music-and-spirituality/ Music And The Shopper by Kimberly Sean Moore https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-musical-self/201412/music-and-the-shopper Why Music Plays A Big Role In What You Buy by Madeline Ford http://blog.motivemetrics.com/The-Psychology-of-Music-Why-Music-Plays-a-Big-Role-in-What-You-Buy The Subliminal Influence Of Ambient Music On Shoppers https://www.psychologistworld.com/behavior/ambient-music-retail-psychological-arousal-customers.php Music And Emotions by Daniela and Bernd Willimek http://www.willimekmusic.de/music-and-emotions.pdf The Theory Of Musical Equilibration https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/why-do-minor-chords-sound-sad-the-theory-of-musical-equilibration-and-the-emotions-of-chords-2161-0487.1000139.php?aid=24803 The Surprising Science Behind What Music Does To Our Brains by Belle Beth Cooper https://www.fastcompany.com/3022942/work-smart/the-surprising-science-behind-what-music-does-to-our-brains Unborn Babies Played Music In The Womb ‘Remember The Melodies When They Are Born’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1364120/Unborn-babies-played-music-womb-remember-melodies-born.html The Universal Language Of Lullaby http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21035103 How Musical Is Man? by John Blacking https://www.amazon.com/Musical-Jessie-John-Danz-Lectures/dp/0295953381 https://www.scribd.com/doc/104131606/How-Musical-is-Man-John-Blacking The Power Of Music by Oliver Sacks https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/129/10/2528/292982/The-power-of-music Psychology Of Workout Music by Ferris Jabr https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychology-workout-music/ RESEARCH PAPERS Neural Correlates Of Specific Musical Anhedonia http://www.pnas.org/content/113/46/E7337.abstract Effect Of Music-Movement Sychrony On Exercise Oxygen Consumption https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22828457 ASSET CREDITS Neaderthal In Shanidar Cave by Alton Tobey uploaded by Amanda 737 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanidar_cave-Neanderthal.jpg http://altontobey.com/man.html Brain Scans of Patients With Parkinsonian Symptoms by psjrbrown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2EqDXEttS4 Music Walking Program For Parkinson’s University Of Calgary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNpoVeLfMKg Hope by George Frederic Watts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(painting) VSAUCE CREDITS Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber Instagram: http://instagram.com/kevlieber Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber Website: http://kevinlieber.com/ Contributing Researcher & Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media http://koala.fm/ VFX by Eric Langlay null Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi http://jaypellizzi.com/ Select Music by Jake Chudnow null Special Thanks Paula Lieber https://twitter.com/pixichuu Special Thanks Sean Malone http://citizena.tv/ Special Thanks Joshua Mark http://www.ancient.eu/user/JPryst/ Special Thanks Eric Dombrowski http://www.ericdombrowski.com/ Vsauce2 Links Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/VsauceTwo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceTwo Website: http://www.Vsauce.com/ The Curiosity Box null What Is Music?