How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain [1]

Waking Times [2]

Video - When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain [3] 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 [4] explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they are playing an instrument, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.