How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-playing-an-instrument-benefits-your-brain-anita-collins When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But...
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Did you know that every time musicians pick up their instruments,there are fireworks going off all over their brain?On the outside, they may look calm and focused,reading the music and making the precise and practiced movements required.But inside their brains, there's a party going on.How do we know this?Well, in the last few decades,neuroscientists have made enormous breakthroughsin understanding how our brains work by monitoring them in real timewith instruments like fMRI and PET scanners.When people are hooked up to these machines,tasks, such as reading or doing math problems,each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed.But when researchers got the participants to listen to music,they saw fireworks.Multiple areas of their brains ...
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Did you know that every time musicians pick up their instruments,there are fireworks going off all over their brain?On the outside, they may look calm and focused,reading the music and making the precise and practiced movements required.But inside their brains, there's a party going on.How do we know this?Well, in the last few decades,neuroscientists have made enormous breakthroughsin understanding how our brains work by monitoring them in real timewith instruments like fMRI and PET scanners.When people are hooked up to these machines,tasks, such as reading or doing math problems,each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed.But when researchers got the participants to listen to music,they saw fireworks.Multiple areas of their brains ...
