Abstract

JUSTEL, Nadia  and  DIAZ ABRAHAN, Verónika. BRAIN PLASTICITY: MUSICAL TRAINING INVOLVEMENT. Suma Psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.19, n.2, pp.97-108. ISSN 0121-4381.

The main research about the effect of musical training in adult and childhood brain was revised in this work. The music realizes unique demands to our nervous system. This call the attention of several researchers causing, in the past years, an enhancement of the exploration about this topic; this increment was beneft for the emergence of new neuroimaging techniques, the music positioned as an investigation tool of human cognition and superior brain mechanisms. The musical perception and production are specific functions of the human brain that depend of a wide cortical-subcortical neural net distributed across both hemi-spheres and cerebellum. The main findings in this area indicated structural and functional differences in the adult and child brain due to musical training, and this is more relevant that innate properties of the subject. There is brain plasticity due to adaptive processes product of the environmental stimulation.

Keywords : music; musical training; cerebral processing; musical perception; musical production; cognition.

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