Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of
the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in …

Learning to play a musical instrument is a complex task that integrates multiple sensory
modalities and higher-order cognitive functions. Therefore, musical training is considered a …

Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and
striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to …

Building on her earlier work,'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of
Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and …

In the last decade, several studies have investigated the neuroplastic changes induced by
long-term musical training. Here we investigated structural brain differences in expert …

The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader
function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing …

Sleep is necessary for the optimal consolidation of procedural learning, and in particular, for
motor sequential skills. Motor sequence learning remains intact with age, but sleep …

Musical expertise is visible both in the morphology and functionality of the brain. Recent
research indicates that functional integration between multi‐sensory, somato‐motor, default …

Background Recent data suggest that musical practice prevents age-related cognitive
decline. But experimental evidence remains sparse and no concise information on the …

In the last decade, important advances in the field of cognitive science, psychology, and
neuroscience have largely contributed to improve our knowledge on brain functioning. More …