Playing musical instruments in the MRI - the brain on music
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How does learning to play a musical instrument change the brain? Can music be instrumental (pun intended!) in helping people recovering from strokes? These are just two questions being answered by researchers at McGill university and the Montreal Neurological Institute. Neurologist Robert Zatorre and his PhD Student Melanie Segado worked with Prof. Marcelo Wanderley, an engineer in the Schulich School of Music, and his student Avrum Hollinger in creating a cello that could be played in an MRI scanner to see how the brain changes as a result of playing a musical instrument.
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I watched the entire thing just to see what the difference in brain scans look like and they didn’t show us
I'm learning ukulele and I'm fascinated about how with every new chord that I learn I almost can feel my neurons getting new connections. My hand movements and rythms in my mind become more organic.It's really amazing. That's why i looked up for info and ended up here.
I love playing my guitar and clarinet. I get an itch to play if it’s been a day or so. I like how it feels like I am knocking the rust off my brain when I play. It’s like an exercise for your brain!
I'm recovering from 20 years of management, I'm doing it with music. I am not joking. I became a decision maker with only enough time for superficial digestion of information. I lost my brain.
@MiguelGonzalez-ck6pj
3 жыл бұрын
Congratulations, when there is a will there is a path :)
@politereminder6284
3 жыл бұрын
Been there....
@TheCloven
8 ай бұрын
I think everyone needs to recover from management positions after doing them for that long
This is so interesting, particularly how the neural mechanics can be substituted with others in stroke patients and if this aspect of brain function potentially carries over to other deficits in other areas.
@skittlepuff
Ай бұрын
That’s what I was thinking!
Fantastic work! Are there companies producing MR-compatible musical instruments for sale?
Great job! Thanks for sharing !
Found it's best not to think introspectivly when playing other than the inner composing of musical rhythm , ie think in music, the sound of the rhythm or lead, or lead you're with over the rhythm, not at how you're playing or about anything else really. When writing lyrics think with words to the rhythm being played, but when writing the music thinking anything other than a musical language is distracting. Forcing yourself to play the song in your head while playing on your instrument keeps you focused and helps you compose better, and you make fewer mistakes. I guess in other words; "Forget you learned a language and try to think only in music, as if notes and rhythm was your conversation. Inner compose in a musical language as an author would compose a character's conversion inwardly while writing it down."
Love how she's playing mark summers, Julie-O
any follow up on this study ?
I'm a cellist myself, I love this😍
@eduardobarbabosa4846
6 жыл бұрын
hey, do you happen to know the piece she plays at 00:17?? its awesome!
I’m glad I play piano now
I just want to know what each pitch looks like in the brain. And do memories of each pitch get destroyed when our ears start losing the capability to perceive certain pitches?
@epyonsystem1869
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe not the memory of the pitch itself but being able to process that pitch through our ears that allows us to hear it in said pitch. Idk interesting thought
Just bring someone with a flute or clarinet
@dunwoodie27
3 жыл бұрын
🤣🪦⚰️
@C_U_R_I_E_L
3 жыл бұрын
I volunteer to play any instrument in there, plastic or wood flute, totally down. Popsickle stick piano?Down. Just hit me up!
@EmmanuelIstace
2 жыл бұрын
nah, initially only violin and piano were considered instruments that could be played by highly skilled and trained people, but after 10 years trying to build that glass piano, they just moved to the cello, it was easier HR wise.
@katharinetorr1131
11 ай бұрын
Strange why only those are considered highly skilled.. ? 44 years I have played the clarinet, flute and all the recorder’s and now learning the saxophone.. you never stop learning , however I got a scholarship to a tiny music school when I was 7 years old and I did all my grades , we were never told that only the piano and cello were considered instruments for the highly skilled.. gutted !!😂💚🎷🎼🎶🧠🧪😆
@skittlepuff
Ай бұрын
I play clarinet. Clarinet is what I was thinking bc it goes straight down the body and doesn’t take up any Space that it doesn’t need to.
isnt skills controlled by the cerebellum?, like drawing for example
I have no doubt that you did inspired work on this and also worked really hard, but at least here, you barely shared any of your findings.
I'm an awesome drummer. My brain is soo effin cool!
oh mann...what's the name of the piece she plays at the very end
@aclouti6
7 жыл бұрын
the prelude from bach's first cello suite, bwv 1007
Could’ve saved 5 years just using a ukele 🥲
What's the song she's playing at 0.18?
@BanjosNerdOn
7 жыл бұрын
It's called Julie-O
@wingwong2828
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I was thinking of Be With You by Mr Big
They didn’t show !
Are animal like cat or dogs are tone deaf?
I've got Brain damage, after falling off a back of a lorry 1980s, and a lorry smatch, I listen to music on my head phones,
Does this work even if you don't willingly play music?
@haleyblackburn4336
3 жыл бұрын
No it does not
@shi-jingtsang5775
Ай бұрын
Yes, if you're getting better at it then your brain is making the connections (it might not give you the usual emotional regulation benefits though!)
Those pits though
What about the brains of drummers? You know, the guys who hang around musicians and beat on things after their shelter provider/girlfriend drives them to the gig?
Its beter then chess
What's up with these out of place comments from a year ago?
Your outcomes are zero accurate. Taking into consideration the limits she had to take when playing the instrument in these circumstances with all the bad or new feelings she had, parts of the brain areas could be affected which show up in your measuring devices and which from what you draw your conclusions. Nevertheless, a very interesting experiment. Thank you
This was not satisfying. It sounded like an advert for their research funders or for their lab or something 🙄
Well that was a waste of time.
maybe PICK AN INSTRUMENT THAT FITS ?!?!?!!?! ALL THAT PHD AND NO BRAIN ?!
This was def a lunchbag let down. I expected something a little less "western" Calling someone an expert musician with no context. No thanks.