Wednesday, October 29, 2014

This Is Your Brain On Music Notes

from Chapter 2 "Foot Tapping" p.57

..."It is no coincidence that making music requires the coordinated, rhythmic use of our bodies, and that energy be transmitted from body movements to a musical instrument. At a neural level, playing an instrument requires the orchestration [italics mine] of regions in our primitive, reptilian brain - the cerebellum and the brain stem - as well as higher cognitive systems such as the motor cortex (in the parietal lobe) and the planning regions of our frontal lobes, the most advanced region of the brain."

orchestration - a synonym for integration?


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