The brain can be enhanced through music and dance. So say scientists from Concordia University in Montreal.
For their study, researchers used high-tech methods of visualization to see the effect of music and dance on the structure of white matter in the brain.
Scientists have divided the subjects into three groups, and scanned their brains. In the first group were musicians, while the second was the dancers, the participants of the third group did nothing. The results of the study it was evident that the brains of dancers and musicians differed in many areas of the white matter, considering the sensory and motor pathways.
In addition, they had different primary and higher levels of cognitive processing. For example the dancers were noticeable wider connections bundles of fibers that connects sensory and motor regions of the brain. Also, the broader was the bundles of fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain in those areas where the processing of motor and sensory information.
