Playing musical instruments in the MRI - the brain on music

[@83Anaconda]

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.

[@Isikkkcan]

haha

[@Cool1st]

How’s the progress going?

[@eliciagarcia3601]

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

[@retro_boy_advance]

Thank you for saving my time!

[@Valtitude]

Watch again. Lit up brain vs _______ for normal, why? 🤔

[@Valtitude]

​@@retro_boy_advanceThe scans are right there.

[@Valtitude]

Your visual comprehension is inaccurate. You have zero idea what you are looking at. Non-musician brains don't light up. Get it? I suspect there are other things that activate this brain activity, but music is terrific by me.

[@RechtmanDon]

I'm a Western classical music improviser in the tradition of Bach and Beethoven. (Alma Elizabeth Deutscher also follows this tradition.) As a consequence of my struggles to comprehend modern trends in classical music composition, I created a new definition of music that complements Dr. Limb's work: "Music is non-verbal sonic linguistic communication created directly or indirectly by humans." Definition created by Don Orfeo, 2017

[@C_U_R_I_E_L]

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]

That’s what I was thinking!

[@Artoliva]

Learning how to play an instrument helps in many areas of of human development

[@skittlepuff]

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!

[@citadelo5ricks]

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]

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

[@politereminder6284]

Been there....

[@TheCloven]

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

[@everready19373]

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]

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

[@jeffbrower68]

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]

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

[@Shaolin-Jesus]

any follow up on this study ?

[@Valtitude]

@Someone McGill is in Montréal. I think there are more videos on KZbin about this subject. 😎

[@anonymous9074]

Just bring someone with a flute or clarinet

[@dunwoodie27]

🤣🪦⚰️

[@C_U_R_I_E_L]

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

[@EmmanuelIstace]

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]

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]

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.

[@danielawise-rojas4844]

I'm a cellist myself, I love this😍

[@eduardobarbabosa4846]

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

[@itu6291]

I’m glad I play piano now

[@bootatoboo]

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

[@UHFStation1]

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]

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

[@Me-tuber]

Great job! Thanks for sharing !

[@chengzhong7429]

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.

[@protect_provide8031]

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

[@Shalier16]

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

[@aclouti6]

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

[@marksevel7696]

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

[@jasonkadhim]

They didn’t show !

[@violatambunan5767]

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

[@haleyblackburn4336]

No it does not

[@shi-jingtsang5775]

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!)

[@knowscheese1056]

Could’ve saved 5 years just using a ukele 🥲

[@aku7598]

Are animal like cat or dogs are tone deaf?

[@alanwebbguitar]

I’ve had two MRIs. There’s no way you can play music in that machine and I am a professional guitarist. They put headphones on you in the machine and ask you what kind of music you’d like to listen to. The first time I chose jazz and it was a disaster. You can’t listen to anything with that fucking noise going on. The second time I did without the music because it was just so irritating to have it interrupted with the horrible noise the MRI machine makes.

[@paulthomas3841]

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,

[@Thepowerof2190]

Imagine your that person and then tge mri gose into annoying mode💀

[@GameArtsCafe]

So unfortunately this post doesn't show the result of someone creating something new or what the brain looks like listening to music, not even what the brain looks like listening to their own music while playing it but only areas of motor function? I heard the brain is almost fully active like a light bulb by a professor of Cognition at a University where I live but I have yet to see it. I'd also love to see a comparison of psychedelics, and psychedelics with music since psychedelic are gaining massive steam research on improving cognition, neurogenesis, reversing brain related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Dementia, it would seem that if it does this, it should be against the law to forbid Adults from access.

[@thop7964]

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

[@mr.snoopy_bdon6609]

Its beter then chess

[@ClassicJukeboxBand]

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?

[@Artoliva]

Too bad public schools are constantly cutting music programs

[@politereminder6284]

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

[@kevinesquivel221]

Those pits though

[@petebang]

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

[@selfactualizer2099]

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

[@fwwryh7862]

Well that was a waste of time.

[@RandomOrder]

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