The benefits of studying music continue to be analyzed. It seems that playing music may make the language areas of your brain more efficient. And there's hope for people even if they are not proficient on an instrument.
Researchers asked a group of musicians and non musicians to listen to -and reproduce-tone sequences. The musicians did better. The surprise was that scans of their brains as they reproduced the tones showed major activity in areas linked to language, which suggested that building music skills may bolster language areas of the brain, too. In other words, studying music is like doing push-ups for your brain.
Never studied music? Apparently, even listening to music and subconsciously learning the melody and words seems to work too.
Wonderful that something so beautiful can also be beneficial and enhance other areas of expertise.
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