How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
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When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain 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 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.
Learning a musical instrument has been found to assist in our memory abilities. How does your capacity to remember facts, ideas, things you have seen and heard, impact on your ability to learn?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Anita Collins
- Director Sharon Colman Graham
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
