Everyday pleasures improve brain function

New research shows that small everyday pleasures like listening to music and drinking a cup of coffee throughout the day improve brain function.
A group of researchers reviewed a new study from New York’s Tendon Engineering School that was conducted with the help of MindWatch, a brain monitoring technology.
The task of MindWatch is to analyze the functioning of the human brain, which is obtained using data obtained from a wearable device that monitors electrodermal activity.
The study’s volunteers used brain-monitoring headbands and skin-monitoring wristbands to complete its extensive cognitive tests.
During this test, while drinking coffee, they also listened to music and smelled their favorite perfumes.
They did the same tests again without using these stimuli.
The obtained results showed that music and coffee have a great effect on improving brain function and put their brain function in a state where the brain function is adjusted during times that require memory.
This wearable device also showed that the use of these stimuli increases the activity of “beta band” brain waves, which is related to cognitive function.
Smelling the perfume had less effect on the volunteers and led the researchers to conduct more investigations in this field.
The tests that were conducted on volunteers in this field included active memory training during which images and sounds were used as stimuli.
Volunteers were shown these pictures one after the other and asked if they matched the other items.
Music was also used in these tests, three energetic and relaxing music as well as music created by artificial intelligence that they liked were played for the volunteers.
The results showed that energetic music had the greatest effect on the volunteers’ brains, followed by music made by artificial intelligence.
According to these researchers, certain interventions can generally improve brain function, but individual effects can also be different.