In a 2013 experiment, mice spent two hours a day in near-total silence. To researchers’ surprise, silence—not Mozart, pup calls or white noise—was the only condition linked to increased numbers of seven-day-old immature neurons in the hippocampus, although the study did not test whether this improved memory or occurs in humans.
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Silence was supposed to be the blank condition. Instead, it produced the one result that lasted.
In a 2013 study, young female mice spent two hours a day inside an anechoic chamber. Some heard white noise, recorded pup calls or Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major. One group heard only the residual quiet the chamber could provide. When the researchers examined the hippocampus seven days after labeling newly dividing cells, only the silence group had more surviving labeled cells than mice ke
In a 2013 study, young female mice spent two hours a day inside an anechoic chamber. Some heard white noise, recorded pup calls or Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major. One group heard only the residual quiet the chamber could provide. When the researchers examined the hippocampus seven days after labeling newly dividing cells, only the silence group had more surviving labeled cells than mice ke
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