Music and development
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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…
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Evidence for a sensitive period in the musical brain
Hello dear reader, I very much hope that your January is going well. We have had some snow here in London which was nice but everyone is getting a little tired of the freezing conditions by now. This week I am trying to do some testing but it is going very slowly as people are frequently not turning up for sessions (grrrr). One advantage of this is that I have some extra reading time and thanks to this I came across a new paper that is all about the issue of whether there is a ‘sensitive period’ for musical training. Does earlier musical training have greater effects on the brain…
