The Musician's Brain

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The Musician's Brain

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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/music/Development/musicianbrain.htm wrote:As the brain is the substrate of all mental processes and their behavioral outcome, and as musicianship is certainly a complex of such processes and their resultant behavioral performances, it would seem that the brains of musicians might be different than the brains of non-musicians. What is now known? Although this complex issue can't be covered completely here, we can summarize some interesting findings that do indicate how the brains of musicians and non-musicians differ.

Before we get started, two points should be made. First, there is no strict dividing line between musicians and non-musicians. The former are not all professionals or those with eight years of formal music education, or necessarily any formal musical education. When does a beginning music student become a musician? An initial solution to this problem is to compare groups of people at opposite ends of a continuum of musicality, such as comparing professionals with those who are musically naive.

Second, they might be differences in the brains of the two groups that cannot be discerned yet because of the current state of technology. For example, the stored knowledge of how to transpose to different keys is not yet detectable by brain scans. Thus, failures to find certain differences may not be sufficient reason to categorically reject such differences.
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