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Commentary from Lutz J\u00e4ncke (Thanks to Dr. Ellen Taliaferro for sharing this study with me)<\/span><\/div>\n
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This study supports my own interpretation of the brain’s capability for experience-dependent influences <\/span>on brain anatomy and function. In concrete, this study demonstrates that 6-year-old children receiving <\/span>instrumental musical training for 15 months not only learned to play their musical instrument but also <\/span><\/div>\n
showed changed anatomical features in brain areas known to be involved in the control of playing a <\/span>musical instrument. This is the first longitudinal study demonstrating brain plasticity in children in the <\/span>context of learning to play a musical instrument. <\/span><\/div>\n
One of the major questions in cognitive neuroscience is whether the human brain can be shaped by experience. <\/span><\/div>\n
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In order to examine use-dependent plasticity of the human brain, mostly cross-sectional studies are undertaken <\/span>comparing subjects with specific skills with appropriate control groups. A classical approach is to compare highly <\/span><\/div>\n
skilled musicians, sportsmen, or subjects with other exceptional skills (e.g. synesthesia) with control subjects <\/span>using neuroanatomical and neurophysiological measures (please see refs [1]<\/span> and [2]<\/span>, on which I am an author, <\/span>and refs [3,4]<\/span>). Using this approach, several anatomical differences have been identified which can be attributed <\/span>to the specific training influences these particular subjects have experienced. However, although these cross- <\/span>sectional studies have uncovered several important findings, cross-sectional approaches are not valid enough to <\/span><\/div>\n
attribute the discovered between-group differences entirely to different learning influences. The only experimental <\/span>approach which is suitable to more validly identify experience-dependent influences in humans is the <\/span>longitudinal experimental approach. Using this approach, the authors of this paper have examined 31 children <\/span>(with a mean age of 6 years) during the course of a 15-month period. Fifteen of these kids received musical <\/span>instrument training (a weekly half-hour training outside the school system) while the 16 remaining kids did not <\/span>attend these classes. However, all kids received the regular music lessons in their school, including playing with <\/span>drums and bells. Thus, the 15 kids receiving keyboard lessons only differed in this particular feature. It turned <\/span>out that these kids showed increased brain volumes in several brain areas after 15 months. Most of these brain <\/span>areas are part of the cortical motor system. There were also structural changes in the auditory system. <\/div>\n
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Taken <\/span>together, this study is the first longitudinal study in children demonstrating structural changes in children <\/span>receiving instrumental musical training. Thus, this study sheds new light on the plasticity of the human brain. <\/span>Faculty of 1000 Medicine: Evaluations, Dissents and Author responses for: [Hyde KL et al. Musical training <\/span>shapes structural brain development. <\/div>\n
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J Neurosci<\/i> 2009 Mar 11 29 (10) :3019-25] 2009 Apr 1. <\/span><\/div>\n
www.f1000medicine.com\/article\/id\/1157746\/evaluation<\/a> <\/div>\n
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