How playing an instrument BENEFITS YOUR BRAIN

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active.

But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout.

What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.

 

Answer:

1-Neuroscientists get excited about watching the brain functions of musicians because?

2-Learning a musical instrument engages which different areas of the brain at the same time?

3-The bridge between the two brain hemispheres is called?

4-Learning a musical instrument teaches your brain how to create, ______ and retrieve memories more effectively?

5-Executive function is a series of interlinked tasks that includes planning, strategizing, and attention to ________.

6-Executive function is a complex combination of brain functions that requires analysis of both the cognitive and emotional aspects of a problem or situation. What type of complex problems of situations could you think of that would use your executive function capabilities?

7-Learning a musical instrument has been found to assist in our memory abilities. How does your capacity to remember facts, ideas, things you have seen and heard, impact on your ability to learn?

8-“Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout.” What could be some of the short and long term effects of keeping your brain in tip-top physical shape?