Kinesthesia & Music

Kinesthesia: The two parietal lobes interpret data related to taste, touch, position sense, physical stimuli, and odors—which can trigger memories faster than any other type of sensory data. These neurons fire when decoding kinesthetic data and during movement imagery. This sensory system also helps you to decode the vibrations of sound waves that beat against the skin and/or that are felt in the 2nd brain layer or limbic system. In combination with the frontal cortex, this system helps you manage your relative position to bounded shapes such as instruments (e.g., the way in which you hold a musical instrument, maintain your position on the piano or organ bench). Those with a kinesthetic preference may gravitate toward tactile memorization (sensing positions of fingers, hands, and body, and how it feels to reproduce the music). They may use musculature to represent the music, modeling important features of musical patterns by means of physical memories (e.g., tap toes, “dance it out” from head to toe).