Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Musical brains

Kids who practice show thickening of corpus callosum
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/416/1
The article implies the two handed nature of the instrumenet may be important although no control is mentioned, in fact its hard to think of an instrument that isn't two handed (harmonica?). It would be interesting to see if the effect is seen in young singers.

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