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Music Making as a Tool for Promoting Brain Plasticity across the Life Span
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Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of skills over the course of a musician’s lifetime. Thus, musicians offer an excellent human model for studying the brain effects of acquiring specialized sensorimotor skills. For example, musicians learn and repeatedly practice the association of motor actions with specific sound and visual patterns (musical notation) while receiving continuous multisensory feedback. This association learning can strengthen connections between auditory and motor regions (e.g., arcuate fasciculus) while activating multimodal integration regions (e.g., around the intraparietal sulcus). We argue that training of this neural network may produce cross-modal effects on other behavioral or cognitive operations that draw on this network. Plasticity in this network may explain some of the sensorimotor and cognitive enhancements that have been associated with music training. These enhancements suggest the potential for music making as an interactive treatment or intervention for neurological and developmental disorders, as well as those associated with normal aging.
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Metadata
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- Wan, C. Y., & Schlaug, G.
- Venue
- The Neuroscientist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 566-577
- ISSN
- 1073-8584 (ISSN-L)
- 1089-4098
- OpenAlex
- W2119272418
- Cited by
- 553
- References
- 88
- FWCI
- 13.94
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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