Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Right Brain - Left Brain


Science appealed to me more than art did when I was young. Easier to get into.

But maybe I should have just tried harder. Certainly music is good for learning and brain development:
Overall, findings to date indicate that music has a biological basis and that the brain has a functional organization for music. It seems fairly clear, even at this early stage of inquiry, that many brain regions participate in specific aspects of music processing, whether supporting perception (such as apprehending a melody) or evoking emotional reactions. Musicians appear to have additional specializations, particularly hyperdevelopment of some brain structures. These effects demonstrate that learning retunes the brain, increasing both the responses of individual cells and the number of cells that react strongly to sounds that become important to an individual.

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