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Does music training change the brain?
Hello Dear Reader Indian Summer has passed here in Luzern. The air is full of autumn chill and the ever early nights are creeping towards freezing. Mind you, it is November! So this turn of events is the expected compared to the balmy weather of recent times. In fact, my local friend Suse tells me that the peaks of 21degrees Celsius that we reached in late October (just shy of 70 degrees Fahrenheit for my US friends) last occurred in the mid-1960s. Lucky me. Today I have been reading a new Frontiers paper on a perennial topic in music psychology – musical training and the brain. When I was studying music…