{"id":538403,"date":"2023-05-25T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-7b2a-cerebrodigitalnet.wpcomstaging.com\/esta-es-la-cancion-mas-relajante-del-mundo-segun-la-ciencia-eacr\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T23:20:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:20:48","slug":"this-is-the-most-relaxing-song-in-the-world-according-to-science-eacr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-7b2a-cerebrodigitalnet.wpcomstaging.com\/en\/this-is-the-most-relaxing-song-in-the-world-according-to-science-eacr\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the most relaxing song in the world, according to science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Zealand alt-pop artist Benee has combined her favourite comfort food with expertise from neuroscientists to design a song, Bagels, that reduced anxiety more effectively than the track previously known as the most relaxing song in the world.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientists from Auckland University of Technology played Bagels to 30 young people hooked up to EEG brain tests and found they reported lower feelings of short-term anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scans showed that when people listened to the song, there was less activity pinging between the frontal and parietal lobes, areas of the brain that light up when our minds are at work or stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are parts of the brain that activate when we\u2019re busy, when you\u2019re doing something strenuous in terms of cognition, thinking, working memory and attention and so forth,\u201d Associate Professor Mangor Pedersen, a neuroscientist who led the study, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a good indicator that when we get less connectivity between these areas, the brain is actually also managing to take a little break.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants listened to six songs, including The Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, Weightless by Marconi Union (billed as the world\u2019s most relaxing song), and two metal songs including System of a Down\u2019s B.Y.O.B., which had the highest anxiety scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bagels reduced anxiety by 5 per cent more than Weightless and the song had the strongest effect in suppressing connectivity in the brain out of all the tracks in the experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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