Life Is As Musical As A Play
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010What was the last music you heard today? How the music, singing or melody you feel? Or more importantly, how did you guess?
This is a study to discover if the brain has been trained musically stronger and able to withstand the degenerative effects of dementia by age compared with brains that are not exposed in any way, or musical training.
This Canadian study is whether children who receive training in early music, has a cognitive advantage – in the form of writing, reading and verbal skills, everything – and other children without training in music are all ways to find than ever.
The study was a grant of over $ 150,000 for an organization in California, which is based in a given context, and all types of research in music.
Researchers wishing to carry out the study believe that the human brain is highly malleable and ductile, very especially if you are a child until he reaches full adulthood.
The researchers hope that once it is established that the initial training in music has a positive effect on brain function – and function of everything related to music – so it is essential that the music childhood should be included. Music could be, and to rehabilitate an effective strategy for a brain that has become corrupted in some way by the disease or stroke used.
Previous work is done, which was this study conducted in Germany with the brains of musicians have been studied and cable connection, how they deal with music and how music is actually able to trigger all the changes – including physical changes – in the hard wire the brain.
This study showed that musicians believe it or not, have a better acoustic and sensory brain better than those who are not musicians. It was also observed that musicians who began training areas early in the brain, particularly the cortex than those who started later.
The Canadian study is the examination of the children and how their brain function as well as adults who are older and previous training in music. Age of children between four and six years. The age group between 50-65 is older.
Children will be introduced to violin lessons, and piano. The two groups through a series of tests that the level of perception and cognition is measured. These groups are the teams that have the same age, but be compared with no training in music in any way.
The EEG is used to measure a change in electric rain. MEG is also used to measure the magnetic variations. MRI is also used to obtain the necessary information on the complex structures of the brain.
But basically it is the objective of the study will be able to find different ways of music as an effective form of rehabilitation for the human brain, whose functions have been hampered by unintended degenerative diseases such as stroke, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, accidents or use cancer, to name a few