Musicians Use Both Sides of Their Brains More Frequently than Average People
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 15:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person.
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