I was wondering why my head hurts... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: ed440 at mindspring.com To: pianotech at ptg.org, ExamPrep at ptg.org Received: 5/22/2006 2:52:01 AM Subject: Grow your own tuning device! >Neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg devotes a chapter of his recent book _The >Wisdom Paradox_ to experimental evidence that the brain grows new nerve tissue >when we learn special skills. >"The next study compares the size of a cortical area known as the Heschl's gyrus in >professional musicians and nonmusicians... This cortical area is critical for sound >processing. And guess what - the Heschl's gyrus is twice as large in musicians as in >nonmusicians. Furthermore, the greater the intensity of practicing music in the last ten >years, the greater the size of the Heschl's gyrus. Again, the relatinship between >cognitive activation and specific brain regions is apparent and striking." >Ed Sutton
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