The University of Tokyo shows that junior high and high school students who have learned musical instruments such as violins from around the age of 5 are more active in the anterior and lateral parts of the right brain and the sensorimotor field than those who have learned it after the age of 9 or inexperienced. Professor Kuniyoshi Sakai of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, headquartered in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, was revealed in a joint survey by the Talent Education Study Group, which develops music education nationwide.
According to the University of Tokyo, the research group consists of 12 junior and senior high school students aged 17 to 98 who learned the violin from around the age of 5, a group who learned the piano before the age of 8, and students who learned the instrument after the age of 9 and did not learn it. The group was divided into groups, and the flute performance was listened to to tackle the task of discovering unnatural parts, and the brain activity at that time was measured by MRI (magnetic resonance imaging method).
As a result, the group who learned the violin from around 5 years old had the highest percentage of correct answers to music tasks.In the measurement of brain activity, the auditory cortex and the verbal area showed selective activities for judgment regardless of the musical experience, but the activities of the anterior motor cortex and the sensory motor cortex of the right brain became more active as the musical instrument acquisition time was earlier. I found out that I was doing it.
Furthermore, in addition to the commonality in the functioning of the brain in the interpretation of musical expressions and the interpretation of language, the pitch, tempo speed, sound intensity, and intonation of multiple sounds required for playing an instrument are judged. For the first time, it became clear that the parts of the brain were different.
Paper information:[Cerebral Cortex] Music-experience-related and musical-error-dependent activations in the brain
