Klarinet Archive - Posting 000404.txt from 2000/04

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Education = Academic Achievement (was Student mo
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:40:42 -0400

> How bout just the Brain scan that shows that Music uses a very large
> portion of the brain to control a high number of small muscles. Opposite
> for Sports - small portion of Brain to control very large muscles. (DENNIS
> RODMAN...)

Unfortunately, part of that is specific to fine motor control, not
music (although there are some additional regions of the brain
activated in musicians related to the hearing aspects).You'd get
similar activation from typing. Having said that, in
neurophysiology, "similar" just means you start looking at the
regions that were used in only the one context.
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 641o6-1453
email: dikarius@-----.EDU
http://uhsweb.edu/physio

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