Music and intelligence:
How musical training shapes the brainBrain scanning technologies have permitted neuroscientists to observe the activity of living brains, and the results are clear:
Musicians are different.For instance, in one study, people who played musical instruments as children showed more robust brainstem responses to sound than did non-musicians.
Other studies have reported that kids assigned to receive musical training developed distinctive neural responses to music and speech, evidence of more intense information processing that was linked with improvements in the discrimination of pitch and the segmentation of speech.
And it's not just a matter of differences in brain activity. There are also differences in brain volume.
If you examine the brain of a keyboard player, you’ll find that the region of the brain that controls finger movements is enlarged.
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