Music Making as a Tool for Promoting Brain Plasticity across the Life Span

From music making to speaking: Engaging the mirror neuron system in autism

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Musical Training Induces Functional Plasticity in Human Hippocampus

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Part VI Introduction

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Evidence for Plasticity in White-Matter Tracts of Patients with Chronic Broca's Aphasia Undergoing Intense Intonation-based Speech Therapy

(2009) Gottfried Schlaug et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Perceiving pitch absolutely: Comparing absolute and relative pitch possessors in a pitch memory task

(2009) Katrin Schulze et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

The Brain of Opera Singers: Experience-Dependent Changes in Functional Activation

(2009) B. Kleber et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development

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Training induces changes in white-matter architecture

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White matter plasticity in the corticospinal tract of musicians: A diffusion tensor imaging study

(2009) Adrian Imfeld et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Cognitive activities delay onset of memory decline in persons who develop dementia

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Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity

(2008) Sylvain Moreno et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Cortical Plasticity Induced by Short-Term Unimodal and Multimodal Musical Training

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Training-Induced Brain Structure Changes in the Elderly

(2008) J. Boyke et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mapping progressive brain structural changes in early Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

(2008) Liana G. Apostolova et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning

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