Brain Corner
Making Music Integrates Multiple Brain Systems.
We love reading
articles about how the brain is effected by making and playing music,
especially in young children. We particularly loved reading this
excerpt below, in a fantastic in-depth article by Sarah J. Wilson,
about how music can induce experience-dependent neuroplasticity in
the brain.
"It has been repeatedly shown that the brains of
musicians are differently organised to non-musicians, particularly if
training was commenced early in life. There are substantive
differences in size, shape, density, connectivity, and functional
activity that occur extensively throughout the musician’s brain, most
notably in frontal, motor, and auditory regions (Merrett &
Wilson, 2011)"
Click below to read the full article on the Music in
Australia website.