Grow your own tuning device!

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

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>Subject: Grow your own tuning device!
>
> >Neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg devotes a chapter of his recent book 
> _The
> >Wisdom Paradox_ to experimental evidence that the brain grows new nerve 
> tissue
> >when we learn special skills.
>
> >"The next study compares the size of a cortical area known as the 
> Heschl's gyrus in
> >professional musicians and nonmusicians... This cortical area is 
> critical for sound
> >processing.  And guess what - the Heschl's gyrus is twice as large in 
> musicians as in
> >nonmusicians.  Furthermore, the greater the intensity of practicing 
> music in the last ten
> >years, the greater the size of the Heschl's gyrus.  Again, the 
> relatinship between
> >cognitive activation and specific brain regions is apparent and striking."
>
> >Ed Sutton



>At 08:04 AM 5/22/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>>I was wondering why my head hurts...
>>
>>David Ilvedson, RPT
>>Pacifica, California


I guess this explain musician's swelled heads, huh???




Conrad Hoffsommer

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