10 Years of Music Creates Big Cognitive Reserve
We have covered the importance of music for improving cognitive performance in several posts on the Next Brain Blog. Some researchers argue that learning to play a musical instrument is one of the best ways to improve and maintain brain function.
A new study, from Emory University supports this idea but provides some specifics:
“… musicians with at least 10 years of instrumental musical training remained cognitively sharp in advanced age.”
Even if subjects stopped playing at some point in life the positive effects linger as long as they played for at least 10 years. Through a decade of musical practice you build up a type of cognitive reserve that can be used later. As the article reports:
“This is an exciting finding in light of recent evidence suggesting that high educational levels are likely to yield cognitive reserve that may potentially delay the onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms or cognitive decline,…”
Ten years may seem like a large investment but developing a strong and resilient brain is a life-long process. Interested to hear from readers that have experience learning and playing a musical instrument. Are you building a cognitive reserve?
Source of Image: When Brain Plays Music
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