That's not all: when you play music, you are exercising your brain in a unique way.
"I think there's enough evidence to say that musical experience, musical exposure, musical training, all of those things change your brain," says Dr. Charles Limb, associate professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Johns Hopkins University. "It allows you to think in a way that you used to not think, and it also trains a lot of other cognitive facilities that have nothing to do with music." Ear worms ...it's easy to get part of a song stuck in your head, perhaps even a part that you don't particularly like. It plays over and over on repeat, as if the "loop" button got stuck on your music player. "What we think is going on is that the neural circuits get stuck in a repeating loop and they play this thing over and over again," Levitin said."
Now, for the EVOLUTIONARY SPIN from the article- "Levitin points out that many of our ancestors, before there was writing, used music to help them remember things, such as how to prepare foods or the way to get to a water source." CNN
How does Levitin know that? It is circular reasoning & assumption-and those two things are not science.
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be
the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals,
sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. 1 Chronicles 15:16