Neurophilosophy : Musical training enhances integration of the senses - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Oct 08
  

  Peter Shanks

  Learning to play a musical instrument is known to involve both structural and functional changes in the brain. Studies published in recent years have established, for example, that professional keyboard players have increased gray matter volume in motor,

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• 03 Oct 08
  

  mrG

  This study shows that sensorimotor and auditory training induces cortical reorganization to a greater extent than does auditory training alone. It also shows that sensorimotor and auditory training cause more changes in the auditory cortex than auditory t

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• 30 Sep 08
  

  john neat

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• 29 Sep 08
  

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  • piano training involving playing musical sequences leads to more reorganizational changes in the brain than does training involving listening alone. They also demonstrate that just 2 weeks of cross-modal musical training enhances connectivity between the sensorimotor and auditory regions of the brain.
  • a change in the activity in the auditory cortex that occurs between 1 and 2 tenths of a second after the presentation of stimuli which include small changes in the frequency or intensityof a sound
  • This phenomemon, called cross-modal plasticity, has been investigated only rarely. In 2003, the same group showed that professional trumput players have enhanced interactions between the auditory cortex and the regions of the somatosensory cortex devoted to the lip. The new study therefore provides another demonstration that the sensorimotor and auditory cortices are connected to each other.

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