CSUN psychology professor Elise Fenn said that music not only affects the brain, but also can influence learning in more indirect ways.
“Music can impact your emotions, and emotions can influence your memory. The effects of music on learning and memory depends on many factors,” said Fenn.
“Music influences learning and memory in some more indirect ways.”
Two main factors can influence music’s impact on memory: the type of information a student learns and the type of music the student listens to.
The type of information determines how easy a student could be distracted.
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Musical Training Causes Brain Plasticity
Music is a model of plasticity because of the multiple systems and the unique effects.
Music training has wide ranging effects in many capacities related to perception, performance,
and language with increases in brain efficiency and fewer neuronal units needed to encode information.
Training affects brain structures more strongly as a child.
When the training begins before age seven,
neural systems are created that last a lifetime. Random samples show structural changes in auditory and motor regions in 15 months of training in children.
Adult training also causes permanent changes in brain structure, but to a lesser degree. Even in old age these changes can be made in weeks of practice.
Changes in brain function can be observed even within three hours of training, but without continued training, short-term changes are reversible
Playing an instrument is highly complex using different higher order cognitive functions where changes can occur in days, weeks and years.
Different types of musicians develop specialized skills: pitch in violinists, timing in conductors, timbre in conductors and composers. Singing is beneficial as a tool because it stimulates basal ganglia and cerebellum as well.
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