When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument (click to signup for an instrumental intro class), that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on?
Educator Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout. (Directed by Sharon Colman Graham, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Peter Gosling) Dr. Anita Collins is an educator, researcher and writer in the field of brain development and music learning.