In 2011: Let Music Change Your Brain

January 3, 2011 No Comments

I didn’t learn to play guitar until I was 30, which seems old if you’re 15 and young if you’re 50. But I do believe it rewired my brain in very positive and mysterious ways. Included among my many resolutions for 2011 are: learning more songs, writing more songs and performing more often in public. And if you’ve been thinking about getting started – it’s not only not too late, it’s just as important as eating more blueberries and doing more crunches: it’ll expand your mind. If you don’t believe, me, believe Oliver Sacks’ report, which states:

“Music is an especially powerful shaping force, for listening to and especially playing it engages many different areas of the brain, all of which must work in tandem: from reading musical notation and coordinating fine muscle movements in the hands, to evaluating and expressing rhythm and pitch, to associating music with memories and emotion.”

This Year, Change Your Mind
By OLIVER SACKS
Published: December 31, 2010
Don’t leave learning to the young. Older brains can grow, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/opinion/01sacks.html

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