[pianotech] Your hippocampus

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings,
 
        Ahh! yes! The Hippocampus. Great  stuff!
 
This relates to not only tuning but music sight reading ability. From what  
I read, the hippocampus is a part of the brain that is used for short term  
memory tasks, such as remembering a phone number just long enough to get to 
a  pad and pencil to jot it down.
 
      From what I read, music sight reading  ablilty is affected by the 
condition of the hippocampus.
 
Recent research has uncovered (2009, thereabouts) that the Hippocampus is  
the only part of the brain that actually has its cells constantly renewed. 
In  PTSD victims the hippocampus is smaller than the person's who does not 
have  PTSD. This article that I read online about a year ago stated that this 
is  because a PSTD victim stores and only replays the trauma via hippocampus 
and  that memory sort of "occupies" the hippocampus and that is the only 
thing  it renews, that is until the trauma is addressed and somehow 
eliminated.  There's a lot of good articles online about it.
 
    A new therapy called EMDR is claimed to help PSTD  victims. Interesting 
stuff. Yes, Yes.
 
Julia Gottshall RPT
Reading PA  
 
       
In a message dated 8/29/2012 5:55:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
David at piano.plus.com writes:

Check this out! _http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19398413_ 
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19398413)    A customer of mine sent the link this 
morning.

You may know of the  effect where London Cab Drviers, who have to 
demonstarte an extremely thorough  knowledge of street navigation in a test before 
they can get a licence, have  been found to have an enlarged hippocampus.  The 
test, which is called  "The Knowledge" is unique in the world, and it can 
take prospective taxi  drivers years to learn the streets by walking and 
cycling.

Now it seems  that piano tuning also affects the hippocampus!

Best  regards,

David.
_www.davidboyce.co.uk_ (http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/) 



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