Published:
2022-12-14
Updated:
2022-12-14
Learning Ukulele with Curt
How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain - Anita Collins
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.
Author(s): Curt Sheller Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Code: UL-TEDed-AC
Main Category: Music Main Instrument: Any
Categories: Chords, General, Music
2026-08-23
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.
Lesson by Anita Collins, animation by Sharon Colman Graham.
- How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain - Anita Collins • Educator Anita Collins, Director Sharon Colman Graham, Script Editor Alex Gendler, Narrator Addison Anderson.
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