Among participants, the researchers found synchronization in several key brain areas, and similar brain activity patterns in different people who listen to the same music.

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The men still listen to the same '80s music they were listening to when they were 19 years old.

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The scanners show that when trained musicians make or listen to music they use (among others areas) approximately the same parts of the brain as those they employ in conversation.

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Yet eventually we listen to music, hold a conversation, and drive at the same time without any conscious effort at all.

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The external speakers were incredibly loud, and we were able to listen to conference calls -- and music -- on the speakerphone from every room on the same floor in our house.

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Multitasking: Apple will finally let users run third-party applications at the same time as other apps, allowing a user to, say, listen to music on Pandora while they browse the Web.

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At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showed how Bing can let you play games in search, IM people in Windows or Facebook a the same time, plan air travel, even choose and watch television or listen to music.

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