Music and The Brain

Neuroscientists have made enormous break throughs in understanding...

• How we think about Music

• How our brains work by monitoring them in real time

• How we listen to music

• How we play music

When a musician plays an instrument fireworks are happening inside of the brain.

• True

• False

____ areas if the brain light up at once when a person listens to music.

• Two

• Three

• Multiple

• None

The acronym FMRI stands for

• First MRI

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• Future Magnetic Repeated Imaging

• Functional Magnetic Reasoning Imaging

Playing music is the brain's equivalent to a full body workout

• True

• False

Mark all that are correct.

Music helps to engage the _____, _____, and _____ cortices of the brain.

• Planning

• Auditory

• Visual

• Motor

Structured practice in playing music does not help with brain functions.

• True

• False

Playing music requires fine motor skills.

• True

• False

Playing music has been found to increase the volume of the brain's ________

• Mass

• Cerebellum

• Corpus Callosum

• Right Hemisphere

Your brain is like a complex filing system

• True

• False