Ever wondered why certain songs shake you to the core while others are an automatic skip? Or what the music you love says about YOU? In 'Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas on This Is What It Sounds Like,' a 10-lesson, 13-page course with graded assessments from Personal Development ProSkills.training, you’ll unlock the science of musical taste and find your unique listener profile.

Drawing on their acclaimed book, This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, neuroscientist Susan Rogers (a renowned audio engineer and record producer who worked with Prince) and computational neuroscientist Ogi Ogas offer profound insights into how our brains interact with music. This course isn't about judging music; it's about understanding your deepest connection to sound and discovering the 'music of you'.

You will delve into the seven influential dimensions of musical listening that shape your preferences:

• Aesthetic Dimensions (evoking beauty and connection):
  • Authenticity: The degree to which music feels genuine and uncontrived.
  • Realism: The organic visualisations a song evokes in your mind's eye.
  • Novelty: Music in your personal "Goldilocks Zone" – not too boring, not too strange.
• Musical Dimensions (features of the piece):
  • Melody: The main tune of a song.
  • Lyrics: The words used in a song, often reflecting identity and values.
  • Rhythm: The patterned recurrence of beat establishing tempo.
  • Timbre: The signature tone quality of instruments and voices.

Explore fascinating insights into your brain on music:

• Rapid Auditory Processing: Discover how your brain makes snap judgments about music in less than a second, thanks to specialised regions for processing each dimension.
• Dopamine Release: Understand how hitting a neural sweet spot along one or more dimensions triggers dopamine release, driving pleasure and the desire to listen again.
• Music & Identity: Learn how music listening induces mind wandering, treating it as a special form of daydreaming that activates the deepest currents of your personal identity.
• Cultural & Evolutionary Roots: See how speech prosody (the music of language) profoundly shapes your musical preferences from before birth.
• Digital Audio Revolution: Grasp how Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) transformed music production, fostering abstract, imaginative compositions by blending sounds that don't exist in the real world.
• Love at First Listen: Uncover why our brains are wired for instant attraction to music, even more so than to people, making it easy to fall for songs that align with our "truest self".

By mapping out your customised listener profile, you will deepen your connection to music, feel empowered to live a more musical life, and hear your beloved tunes with fresh ears. This journey of self-discovery through music can be as revelatory as pursuing any relationship.

Enrol in 'Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas on This Is What It Sounds Like' today and start your journey to truly understand the soundtrack of your life!