Music & The Brain
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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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Can instrument training improve speech?
Greetings Dear Reader, from a chilly rainy Swiss morning. The weather has not been great in Luzern of late; autumn mist has descended from the mountains meaning that most days the city is coated in a low white blanket that hides the majestic scenery and waters the landscape. But every so often the sun appears and I’m reminded of how stunning this city can be. Luckily, even the mistiest of days can’t obscure the beauty of the lake and the old town. This morning I turned my attention away from the rain and onto to a paper that had been staring at me every day since I downloaded it. A…
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