BRAIN PLASTICITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF MUSICAL EDUCATION
BRAIN PLASTICITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF MUSICAL EDUCATION
Author(s): Dorina Geta IuşcăSubject(s): Education
Published by: Editura ARTES
Keywords: brain plasticity; instrumental music training; corpus callosum; cerebellum; planum temporale
Summary/Abstract: The human brain is capable of astonishing changes of structure, as a result of learning and experience. The concept of brain plasticity defines an adjustment of sensory and motor system to environmental stimulus and requirements, therefore some brain structures compensate for other cerebral parts. Music training constitutes an intense, multisensory and motric experience, that offers the ideal opportunity to study the plasticity of the developing brain, phenomenon seen as
Journal: Review of Artistic Education
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 01+02
- Page Range: 73-79
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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