Emerging research over the last decade has shown that long-term music training and skill learning can be a strong stimulator for neuro-plastic changes in the developing as well as adult brain. Making music places unique demands on the nervous system, leading to strong cou-pling of perception and action mediated by sen-sory, motor, and multimodal integrative regions distributed throughout the brain. Furthermore, listening to music and making music ("musick-ing") provokes motion, improves and increases between-subject communication and interac-tion, and is considered to be and experienced as a joyous and rewarding activity.
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