Extensive piano practicing has regionally specific effects on white matter development
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- 7 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 8 (9) , 1148-1150
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1516
Abstract
Using diffusion tensor imaging, we investigated effects of piano practicing in childhood, adolescence and adulthood on white matter, and found positive correlations between practicing and fiber tract organization in different regions for each age period. For childhood, practicing correlations were extensive and included the pyramidal tract, which was more structured in pianists than in non-musicians. Long-term training within critical developmental periods may thus induce regionally specific plasticity in myelinating tracts.Keywords
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