Instrumental music is a type of music in which there are no vocals. The nucleus accumbens will be activated when a person is listening to pleasant music although it is never heard before. Listening to pleasant music may increase cerebral blood flow or brain vascularisation in the mesocorticolimbic system, ventral striata (nucleus accumbens and mesencephalon), thalamic structure, cerebellum, insula, anterior cingulate cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex.

Positive emotion which people get from listening to music will encourage cognitive repair process.

Music impacts the encoding process of sensory memory. Memory can be divided into 3 categories it consists of sensory information storage, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Right cerebral hemisphere receives musical impulse and activates both hemispheres via the corpus callosum. Music activates stored memory and stimulates cognitive function, also, recent brain imaging studies have shown that neural activity associated with listening to music extends well beyond the auditory cortex involving a wide-spread bilateral network of the frontal, temporal, parietal and subarachnoid pathway. Musical listening experience necessitates complex auditory pattern-processing mechanisms, attention, memory storage and retrieval, and sensory-motor integration. Listening to music induces powerful modulation activity on the mesolimbic pathway, impacts the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area, as well as the hypothalamus and insula. The process of brain neuroplasticity in its relationship with music is a part of enhancing cognitive ability or intelligence in the form of auditory intelligence. Listening to music including in elderly associates with an improvement of brain plasticity, which is beneficial to stimulate cognitive function. Music can vibrate and resonate rhythm in our nature, in which as a metaphor, every cell in our body plays a role as a rhythmical sound resonator. The three major pearls of wisdom consist of Parahyangan or the harmony of life between human with God, Pawongan or the harmony of life between human with each other, and Palemahan or the harmony of life between humans and their natural surroundings. In Hindu religion, the philosophy of life is called Tri Hita Karana, which refers to a harmonious relationship that manifests happiness. The balance between brain, body, and soul is an integral part of human life.

Pan flute instrumental music youtube