Two neuroscientists named Oliver Bones and Christopher Plack, of Manchester University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong released a study that might explain why your parents don't like your music.
You might have guessed…
…the answer is in their age.
The research paper, titled Losing the Music: Aging Affects the Perception and Subcortical Neural Representation of Musical Harmony, explores the effect that aging has on hearing. It finds that the brain's ability to distinguish between certain sounds decreases as people get older, which may explain why the elderly tend to engage less with music.
"The study hinged on the difference between consonant and dissonant chords. These terms describe two opposites. When a chord is consonant, it includes two or more tones that are matched. The sound is sweet and comfortable. But when a chord is dissonant it sounds grating and messy. This is why consonance literally means sounding togetherwhereas dissonance means sounding apart. It's a generalization, of course, but a lot of experimental music will tend to use dissonant chords, whereas more traditional pop relies more on consonance. Compare Aphex Twin to Mumford & Sons, for example."
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