Playing musical instruments in the MRI - the brain on music

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  • čas přidán 5. 11. 2014
  • How does learning to play a musical instrument change the brain? Can music be instrumental (pun intended!) in helping people recovering from strokes? These are just two questions being answered by researchers at McGill university and the Montreal Neurological Institute. Neurologist Robert Zatorre and his PhD Student Melanie Segado worked with Prof. Marcelo Wanderley, an engineer in the Schulich School of Music, and his student Avrum Hollinger in creating a cello that could be played in an MRI scanner to see how the brain changes as a result of playing a musical instrument.
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Komentáře • 58

  • @83Anaconda
    @83Anaconda Před 2 lety +23

    I'm learning ukulele and I'm fascinated about how with every new chord that I learn I almost can feel my neurons getting new connections. My hand movements and rythms in my mind become more organic.It's really amazing. That's why i looked up for info and ended up here.

  • @eliciagarcia3601
    @eliciagarcia3601 Před 5 lety +96

    I watched the entire thing just to see what the difference in brain scans look like and they didn’t show us

  • @C_U_R_I_E_L
    @C_U_R_I_E_L Před 3 lety +7

    This is so interesting, particularly how the neural mechanics can be substituted with others in stroke patients and if this aspect of brain function potentially carries over to other deficits in other areas.

    • @skittlepuff
      @skittlepuff Před 3 měsíci

      That’s what I was thinking!

  • @skittlepuff
    @skittlepuff Před 3 měsíci

    I love playing my guitar and clarinet. I get an itch to play if it’s been a day or so. I like how it feels like I am knocking the rust off my brain when I play. It’s like an exercise for your brain!

  • @Me-tuber
    @Me-tuber Před 9 lety

    Great job! Thanks for sharing !

  • @jeffbrower68
    @jeffbrower68 Před 6 lety +4

    Found it's best not to think introspectivly when playing other than the inner composing of musical rhythm , ie think in music, the sound of the rhythm or lead, or lead you're with over the rhythm, not at how you're playing or about anything else really.
    When writing lyrics think with words to the rhythm being played, but when writing the music thinking anything other than a musical language is distracting.
    Forcing yourself to play the song in your head while playing on your instrument keeps you focused and helps you compose better, and you make fewer mistakes.
    I guess in other words; "Forget you learned a language and try to think only in music, as if notes and rhythm was your conversation. Inner compose in a musical language as an author would compose a character's conversion inwardly while writing it down."

  • @HouseOfOuroboros
    @HouseOfOuroboros Před 9 lety +8

    Fantastic work! Are there companies producing MR-compatible musical instruments for sale?

  • @citadelo5ricks
    @citadelo5ricks Před 7 lety +33

    I'm recovering from 20 years of management, I'm doing it with music. I am not joking. I became a decision maker with only enough time for superficial digestion of information. I lost my brain.

    • @MiguelGonzalez-ck6pj
      @MiguelGonzalez-ck6pj Před 4 lety +4

      Congratulations, when there is a will there is a path :)

    • @politereminder6284
      @politereminder6284 Před 3 lety +1

      Been there....

    • @TheCloven
      @TheCloven Před 10 měsíci +2

      I think everyone needs to recover from management positions after doing them for that long

    • @everready19373
      @everready19373 Před měsícem +1

      I worked in manufacturing for 34 years. My brain is like play-doh. I'm learning bass guitar but it is an uphill struggle.

    • @citadelo5ricks
      @citadelo5ricks Před 23 dny

      @@everready19373 climb that hill! if each step is up the reaching the top is irrelevant.

  • @danielawise-rojas4844
    @danielawise-rojas4844 Před 7 lety +2

    I'm a cellist myself, I love this😍

    • @eduardobarbabosa4846
      @eduardobarbabosa4846 Před 6 lety

      hey, do you happen to know the piece she plays at 00:17?? its awesome!

  • @anonymous9074
    @anonymous9074 Před 4 lety +16

    Just bring someone with a flute or clarinet

    • @dunwoodie27
      @dunwoodie27 Před 3 lety +1

      🤣🪦⚰️

    • @C_U_R_I_E_L
      @C_U_R_I_E_L Před 3 lety +1

      I volunteer to play any instrument in there, plastic or wood flute, totally down. Popsickle stick piano?Down. Just hit me up!

    • @EmmanuelIstace
      @EmmanuelIstace Před 3 lety

      nah, initially only violin and piano were considered instruments that could be played by highly skilled and trained people, but after 10 years trying to build that glass piano, they just moved to the cello, it was easier HR wise.

    • @katharinetorr1131
      @katharinetorr1131 Před rokem

      Strange why only those are considered highly skilled.. ?
      44 years I have played the clarinet, flute and all the recorder’s and now learning the saxophone.. you never stop learning , however I got a scholarship to a tiny music school when I was 7 years old and I did all my grades , we were never told that only the piano and cello were considered instruments for the highly skilled.. gutted !!😂💚🎷🎼🎶🧠🧪😆

    • @skittlepuff
      @skittlepuff Před 3 měsíci

      I play clarinet. Clarinet is what I was thinking bc it goes straight down the body and doesn’t take up any Space that it doesn’t need to.

  • @itu6291
    @itu6291 Před 6 lety +8

    I’m glad I play piano now

  • @protect_provide8031
    @protect_provide8031 Před 3 lety

    Love how she's playing mark summers, Julie-O

  • @Shaolin-Jesus
    @Shaolin-Jesus Před 5 lety +2

    any follow up on this study ?

  • @marksevel7696
    @marksevel7696 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm an awesome drummer. My brain is soo effin cool!

  • @paulthomas3841
    @paulthomas3841 Před 2 lety +1

    I've got Brain damage, after falling off a back of a lorry 1980s, and a lorry smatch, I listen to music on my head phones,

  • @chengzhong7429
    @chengzhong7429 Před rokem +1

    I have no doubt that you did inspired work on this and also worked really hard, but at least here, you barely shared any of your findings.

  • @bootatoboo
    @bootatoboo Před 11 měsíci

    isnt skills controlled by the cerebellum?, like drawing for example

  • @UHFStation1
    @UHFStation1 Před 4 lety +1

    I just want to know what each pitch looks like in the brain. And do memories of each pitch get destroyed when our ears start losing the capability to perceive certain pitches?

    • @epyonsystem1869
      @epyonsystem1869 Před 4 lety +1

      Maybe not the memory of the pitch itself but being able to process that pitch through our ears that allows us to hear it in said pitch. Idk interesting thought

  • @knowscheese1056
    @knowscheese1056 Před 3 lety +2

    Could’ve saved 5 years just using a ukele 🥲

  • @Shalier16
    @Shalier16 Před 7 lety

    oh mann...what's the name of the piece she plays at the very end

    • @aclouti6
      @aclouti6 Před 7 lety +2

      the prelude from bach's first cello suite, bwv 1007

  • @mr.snoopy_bdon6609
    @mr.snoopy_bdon6609 Před 3 lety +2

    Its beter then chess

  • @ClassicJukeboxBand
    @ClassicJukeboxBand Před 3 lety +1

    What about the brains of drummers? You know, the guys who hang around
    musicians and beat on things after their shelter provider/girlfriend
    drives them to the gig?

  • @wingwong2828
    @wingwong2828 Před 7 lety

    What's the song she's playing at 0.18?

  • @violatambunan5767
    @violatambunan5767 Před 5 lety

    Does this work even if you don't willingly play music?

    • @haleyblackburn4336
      @haleyblackburn4336 Před 3 lety

      No it does not

    • @shi-jingtsang5775
      @shi-jingtsang5775 Před 2 měsíci

      Yes, if you're getting better at it then your brain is making the connections (it might not give you the usual emotional regulation benefits though!)

  • @kevinesquivel221
    @kevinesquivel221 Před 6 lety

    Those pits though

  • @jasonkadhim
    @jasonkadhim Před 3 lety

    They didn’t show !

  • @aku7598
    @aku7598 Před 5 lety

    Are animal like cat or dogs are tone deaf?

  • @thop7964
    @thop7964 Před 5 lety +1

    What's up with these out of place comments from a year ago?

  • @politereminder6284
    @politereminder6284 Před 3 lety +1

    This was not satisfying. It sounded like an advert for their research funders or for their lab or something 🙄

  • @petebang
    @petebang Před 2 lety +1

    Your outcomes are zero accurate. Taking into consideration the limits she had to take when playing the instrument in these circumstances with all the bad or new feelings she had, parts of the brain areas could be affected which show up in your measuring devices and which from what you draw your conclusions. Nevertheless, a very interesting experiment. Thank you

  • @fwwryh7862
    @fwwryh7862 Před rokem

    Well that was a waste of time.

  • @selfactualizer2099
    @selfactualizer2099 Před 4 lety +1

    maybe PICK AN INSTRUMENT THAT FITS ?!?!?!!?! ALL THAT PHD AND NO BRAIN ?!

  • @RandomOrder
    @RandomOrder Před 4 lety +1

    This was def a lunchbag let down. I expected something a little less "western" Calling someone an expert musician with no context. No thanks.