Music

Result: Yes.

Why: The speech to song illusion focuses on the melody and rhythm and ignores the words.

Jack Balck uses it as a tool in life.

### Experiment: Spin Your Faces

Depending on what they hear, they'll dress up based on the music they hear.

Result: Why do some people hear the tone rising, and some people hear it falling?

Why: The Tri-tone paradox, a bi-stable illusion, meaning different people perceive it in different ways and nobody is right or wrong. The way you hear in infacy can affect how you hear the tones as adults.

### Game #1: Marsupial

Listen to this speech while watching a Marsupial. Can you remember items on a shopping list?

Result: Not many, right?

Now hear it with a music tone attached to it.

Result: You can probably name more.

Why: The hippocampus and frontal cortex process a lot. We can recall more quickly in song, like the alphabet.

#### Stage Mini-Game: Mental Jam Session

Lior and Jack team up for a mental jam session. Then, afterwards, something should happen, and they influence each other. Lior tries to guess the title of the song.

Result: He guesses it correctly.

### Game #2: Sliding Scale

When is the music the most relaxing?

Result: Probably in the middle.

So: When the music is faster, blood pressure is faster. When it's slower, we produce relaxation.

### Experiment: Chocolate Music

Will eating chocolate effect the taste of music? Let's try it out. With two different pieces of music, they will eat the same chocolate. Valerie is a professional, but let's see how others react.

Result: The first chocolate, averaged 3.3. Now, let's change the music. They rate it higher. When listening to the higher-pitched music, the chocolate was sweeter.

So: What you hear might be just as important as what you taste. Synesthesia, is when people can smell words or taste memories, and we all might have a little bit of it.

#### Experiment: Musical Expectancy

After playing and pausing suddenly, what will your reaction be?

Result: You want him to just finish already.

#### The Science With Kelly Clarkson

Music is rewarding because it sets expectations. Music continues to present the brain with a challenge of figuring out what comes next.

#### Stage Mini-Game: Mind Conductor

Lior makes the audience his band. Then, he picks 2 groups of people. Each person will select a glass and put it on another table. There are 8 glasses total. Then, he will guess a song Jack is thinking of. Then, with the glasses, he will play it.

Result: He is able to.

### Game #3: Misheard

Listen to this audio clip. What do you hear?

Result: Could be anything.

Why: Paredolia tries to find patterns in everything. Paredolia is normal.

The ability to dance meant you could survive in ancient times. Early human had better survival rates.

### Gauntlet

#### Rock Paper Scissors

Lior wins 3-0, but each round was actually a tie.

#### Composure:

Can Jack hold it?

Result: Jack falls for the distraction.

### Experiment: Disco Survive

Singing "I Will Survive", Jack will have to improvise and rhyme the words together.

Result: He's able to.

Why: By turning on daydreaming in his brain and turning off self-criticism, your brain can be more independent.

## List of Experts

* Cara Santa Maria(Science Journalist)
* Jack Balck
* Meghan Trainor
* Kelly Clarkson
* Kyle Gass
* Dr. Dan Levetin
* Dr. Dutch(Mentioned)