Check out the book "This is your Brain on Music" by Daniel J. Levitin.  It is about how your brain changes when you are listening to and participating in music.

Rachel Cullen
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Subject: Re: [article] Can Music Experience Improve Older Adults' Hearing? Older musicians excel in memory and hearing speech in noise compared to non-musicians
 
What? Hey, you talkin' to ME?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Michael Geilich <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Clearly not talking about people who burn their ears out with loud
> amplifiers.
> They call themselves musicians too.
>
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:19 AM, John Erickson wrote:
>
> > Willy requested that I post a link to this story: "Can Music
> > Experience Improve Older Adults' Hearing?" (Northwestern University
> > Newscenter) <http://bit.ly/nyib8l>
> >
> > Can Music Experience Improve Older Adults' Hearing?
> > Older musicians excel in memory and hearing speech in noise compared
> > to non-musicians
> > By Wendy Leopold (May 11, 2011)
> >
> > EVANSTON, Ill. --- A growing body of research finds musical training
> > gives students learning advantages in the classroom. Now a
> > Northwestern University study finds musical training can benefit
> > Grandma, too, by offsetting some of the deleterious effects of aging.
> >
> > "Lifelong musical training appears to confer advantages in at least
> > two important functions known to decline with age -- memory and the
> > ability to hear speech in noise," says Nina Kraus, director of the
> > Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory and co-author of the study in the May
> > 11 issue of the online science journal PLoS One.
> >
> > Co-written by Northwestern researchers Alexandra Parbery-Clark, Dana
> > Strait, Samira Anderson, Emily Hittner and Kraus, "Musical Experience
> > and the Aging Auditory System" finds that -- when compared to their
> > non-musician counterparts -- musicians 45- to 65-years-old excel in
> > auditory memory and the ability to hear speech in noisy
> > environments...
> >
> > (more at link above)
> >
> > =========
> >
> > The citation for the work is: Parbery-Clark A, Strait DL, Anderson S,
> > Hittner E, Kraus N. (2011) "Musical Experience and the Aging Auditory
> > System: Implications for Cognitive Abilities and Hearing Speech in
> > Noise." PLoS ONE 6(5): e18082. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018082
> > <http://bit.ly/nwWQof>
> >
> > --
> > John S. Erickson, Ph.D.
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