Brain Structures Differ between Musicians and Non-Musicians

By Christian Gaser, Gottfried Schlaug. Journal of Neuroscience, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The Influence of Experience and Deliberate Practice on the Development of Superior Expert Performance (2006, background): “Furthermore, recent reviews (Gaser & Schlaug, 2003 ; Hill & Schneider, Chapter 37; Kolb & Whishaw, 1998) show that the function and structure of the brain is far more adaptable than previously thought possible.”
Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals. (2008, methodology): “Gaser and Schlaug (2003) used voxel-based morphometry to compare professional musicians, amateur musicians, and nonmusicians; they found increased gray matter density for professional musicians with smaller increases for amateur musicians in regions of the motor, auditory, and visual cortex.”
Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “Prior research indicates that cognitive, linguistic, and motor abilities can correlate with differences in brain structure, (e.g., Crinion et al., 2009; Draganski & May, 2008; Gaser & Schlaug, 2003; Lee et al., 2007; Maguire et al., 2000; Mechelli et al., 2004).”
The underlying anatomical correlates of long-term meditation: Larger hippocampal and frontal volumes of gray matter (2009, background): “…studies in normative samples (i.e., non-meditators) have suggested changes in cerebral macro-structure, such as increased gray matter (GM), in response to intensive training in a number of cognitive, sensory, and motor domains (Maguire et al., 2000; Gaser and Schlaug, 2003; Mechelli et al., 2004).”
The influence of Organized Violence and Terror on Brain and Mind : a Co-Constructive Perspective (2006, background): “Moreover, the musician's brain not only exemplifies adaptation (or in some cases maladaptation; Elbert et al., 1998) to somatosensory requirements but differs from " normal " brains on many levels (Münte et al., 2002; Christian & Schlaug, 2003).”
Enacting Musical Experience (2009, background): “, Gaser and Schlaug, 2003) have found significant differences in brain structure between musicians and non-musicians, suggesting that the long-term skill acquisition and repetition of these skills required to become a professional musician brings about structural changes in specific brain regions. M”
Intelligence and neural efficiency. (2009, neutral): “In fact this research has a longer tradition than the neural efficiency hypothesis itself with two studies by Gasser et al. (1987) and Thatcher et al. (1983) both showing lower intelligence being associated with higher coherence (i.”
Shared networks for auditory and motor processing in professional pianists: Evidence from fMRI conjunction (2006, background): “…due to the training of instrumental motor skills can occur very rapidly (Pascual-Leone et al., 1995; Bangert and Altenmü ller, 2003; Stewart et al., 2003); lifelong practice might even alter macrostructural anatomy (Schlaug et al., 1995; Elbert et al., 1995; Gaser and Gottfried Schlaug, 2003).”
The Musical Ear Test, a new reliable test for measuring musical competence (2010, positive): “…& Ross, 2001; Vuust et al., 2005) and has been tied to organizational differences in cortical and subcortical structure (Bangert et al., 2006; Gaser & Schlaug, 2003; Hutchinson, Lee, Gaab, & Schlaug, 2003; Schlaug, Jäncke, Huang, Staiger, & Steinmetz, 1995; Schlaug, Jäncke, Huang, &…”
Brain anatomy differences in childhood stuttering (2008, methodology): “…et al., 2004), language laterality (Nucifora et al., 2005), reversed laterality (Dorsaint- Pierre et al., 2006), bilingualism (Mechelli et al., 2004), and instrument practice (Gaser and Schlaug, 2003a), some of the brain structure differences in adults may have occurred as a result of stuttering.”