How playing an instrument benefits your brain

Title:: How playing an instrument benefits your brain
Speaker:: Anita Collins
Description:: When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout. [Directed by Sharon Colman Graham, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Peter Gosling].

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TED-Ed
Duration:: 04:45

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