How Does Making Music Change the Brain Depending on the Starting Age?.

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Video

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Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Latest Thinking, [date of publication not identified]

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video file

Summary:

Only in the last decades research found that experiences change the human brain. The research presented in this video deals with the question how making music reorganizes neural pathways in the brain. In a comparative study of brains of pianists who started playing early in life with those of pianists who started later and those of non-musicians ECKART ALTENMÜLLER found significant differences: Among others, the brain regions important for emotions, automation of movement, hand control, and for analyzing melodies are developed differently. Surprisingly, some of these regions are smaller in the brains of musicians, especially those who started in early childhood. This leads to the interpretation that if people start making music later they need larger neuronal networks for the same skill-level.

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