Ask your doctor if this means just listening to music will do this neuroplasticity or do you need to learn an instrument.
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?ART_DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00606
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1Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences,
The University of Melbourne,
Australia
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2Department of Psychology,
Université de Montréal,
Canada
A large body of literature now exists to
substantiate the long-held idea that musicians' brains differ
structurally and functionally from nonmusicians' brains. These
differences include changes in volume, morphology, density,
connectivity, and function across many regions of the brain. In addition
to the extensive literature that investigates these differences
cross-sectionally by comparing musicians and nonmusicians, longitudinal
studies have demonstrated the causal influence of music training on the
brain across the lifespan. However, there is a large degree of
inconsistency in the findings, with discordance between studies,
laboratories, and techniques. A review of this literature highlights a
number of variables that appear to moderate the relationship between
music training and brain structure and function. These include age at
commencement of training, sex, absolute pitch, type of training, and
instrument of training. These moderating variables may account for
previously unexplained discrepancies in the existing literature, and we
propose that future studies carefully consider research designs and
methodologies that control for these variables.
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