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Old 05-24-2019, 12:07 AM
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Default Playing a Musical Instrument is Good for the Brain

Playing a musical instrument is good for the brain. The new technology that allows science to see what's going on in the brain is fascinating.

Now we have another good reason to play our guitars



If the link above throws an error, try the link URL below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng&t=1s
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Now find a video that shows how acquiring new instruments is good for the brain. I need to show my wife.
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Old 05-24-2019, 12:37 AM
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Now find a video that shows how acquiring new instruments is good for the brain. I need to show my wife.
Yeah that video is absolutely needed!
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Interesting...thanks Pete.
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Old 05-24-2019, 03:10 AM
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"Use it or lose it" has been known to apply to the brain for quite a while but those "new" techniques do indeed make it easy to illustrate brain function for a wider audience.

(I say "new" because they started to become widely used in research about 20 years ago already.)

An older one that uses a bit more grown-up ideom (I have a memory of being mesmerised -biologised- by it at the Paris Cité des Sciences back in early '97):

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I started playing 2.5 years ago for two reasons; PT for my left hand that had been sliced wide open in Dupetrens Contracture surgery and to exercise my 66 year old brain.

It's been a lot of fun and it must be working...................now if I could just remember why!
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If our local open mic is any indication, it's too late for some people...
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If our local open mic is any indication, it's too late for some people...
Yes - I think in some cases it depends if your brain is doing the playing or the listening.

I would agree it's good for the brain but my wife might disagree.
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If our local open mic is any indication, it's too late for some people...
Ouchhhhh Well perhaps firing the brain synapse does not necessarily translate to high level muscle motor skill , vocal chord vibration , or lyric retention

There is however treatise on music and the brain

https://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Bra.../dp/0452288525
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Ouchhhhh Well perhaps firing the brain synapse does not necessarily translate to high level muscle motor skill , vocal chord vibration , or lyric retention
There is ample evidence that watching someone perform certain actions triggers almost the same brain regions as performing the actions yourself, and I know of personal experience that listening to someone play an instrument you've mastered yourself is completely different than listening to an instrument being played that you do not know how to play.
From there one can easily expect that only listening will also trigger those same brain regions as watching as listening does, but evidently your brain won't know what regions to activate if you haven't first allowed it to train doing the real thing.

Wait ... where was I going with this?
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Ouchhhhh Well perhaps firing the brain synapse does not necessarily translate to high level muscle motor skill , vocal chord vibration , or lyric retention



There is however treatise on music and the brain



https://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Bra.../dp/0452288525
Thanks for the link! Sounds like an excellent read. I got a copy on the way.
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