The musicians were asked to invent new functions for common household objects. On average, they came up with 14 more uses than nonmusicians could. In a second experiment musicians dreamed up new uses for everyday items while the prefrontal lobes in their brains got scanned. And musicians had more activity in both sides of their frontal lobes than nonmusicians did. Researchers think these findings fit with musical talent—for example, pianists use each hand simultaneously to play different melodies and rhythms.
And they read notes, a left-hemisphere task, and immediately turn them into music, a right-hemisphere job. When it comes to creativity, harmonious hemispheres make beautiful music together. Already a subscriber?
When musicians practice, you may just think they are enhancing their musical skills. They are, however, enhancing every other skill they have. Being a musician isn't just about playing music, but learning to play everything else. Structured practice in music strengthens brain functions, particularly those of the visual, auditory and motor cortices. Musicians can use those strengthened brain functions and apply them to other activities. According to Collins, "playing music is the brain's equivalent of a full body workout.
It's not just remembering notes and finger placement, it's remembering everything else. According to Collins, musicians exhibit enhanced memory functions.
Because they use both sides of their brain, they are able to give their memories multiple tags, such as conceptual, emotional and audio tags, making it easier to extrapolate the memories when needed. Thus, musicians can create, store and retrieve memories more quickly and efficiently than the average person. As we all know, memories are important in our education.
We must remember our lessons, mistakes and those moments that can translate from one experience to the next in order to learn and grow. There is such a thing as mental maintenance.
We eat certain foods, take certain vitamins and exercise certain parts of our brain for longevity and health. Musicians, however, are conducting the best maintenance of all. According to a study published in the American Psychological Association, the number of years people spend playing instruments directly correlates to how strong their brains remain in later years. Due to changes in the brain organization that occurs when one learns music, those who spent years playing it help preserve cognitive functioning in advanced age.
The study, conducted on 70 older adults ages varying in musical activity, completed a comprehensive neuropsychological test. But newly published research suggests a low-tech way of retaining our mental agility: Learn to play a musical instrument. According to this research, people who spend many hours in the practice room not only process information unusually efficiently, but they also do a superior job of not letting occasional errors derail them.
These findings "suggest that playing a musical instrument might improve the ability to monitor our behavior and adjust our responses effectively when needed," writes a research team led by cognitive neuroscientist Ines Jentzsch of the University of St. In the journal Neuropsychologica, the researchers describe an experiment featuring 36 young adults. They were divided into four groups: Musicians who had accumulated at least 5, hours of practice; those who had clocked 2, to 5, hours; the lightweights or newcomers to music who had practiced for to 2, hours; and non-musicians.
As they performed these tricky tasks, their brains were continuously monitored via EEG recording. The results: People with more musical training responded faster than those with little or no training, with no loss in accuracy.
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