Comments on: Musicians, Creativity and Balanced Brain Use

By: Tony Brown

Tony Brown — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:55:36 +0000

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By: Stephen Dolle

Stephen Dolle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:24:09 +0000

The findings should be of no surpise in this study of creativity. But – I’d like to see a study on LANGUAGE, and whether music enhances language development. I play and facilitate drum circles and have noticed a new ability to understand foreign language, others agree. Music is a “mental exercise.” Before a person goes to golf, do tennis, baseball, dance, etc., do they not prep the skill needed for that activity.

WHY is it that in 2009 – we still do little to prep our brains prior to key mental activities and challenges? I see a few rx drugs are being used. There’s a lot more we can do here, beyond rx drugs. I really like drum progressions, esp some big bass to get you going.

By: madmogs

madmogs — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:07:29 +0000

Was there any correlation as to how many of the musicians played wind instruments?

I’m just thinking that since wind players are in the habit of performing complicated tasks while making their breath last as long as possible that they may well have more developed lungs and circulation geared towards making sure the brain gets plenty of oxygen.

That said, I am not a doctor, I’m just a rather bad flute player.

By: integralmeditation

integralmeditation — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:15:34 +0000

Another idea is that there is a passive stimulating exercising effect to music. One day when I had to clear the scotch thistles I got the biggest 50% increase in the processing speed records when I walked in looking like a pincushion with spikey cobblers pegs everywhere. Such techniues might add to things like fast deep breaths and jumping about to rev the nervous system up to higher speeds.

By: integralmeditation

integralmeditation — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:25:19 +0000

An entertaining showdown could be between people that for example speak 5 languages regularly and people that use 5 instruments regularly. Spoken languages seem on average a more advanced and complex form of communicating yet perhaps slower and not usually involving as much multitasking. So processing speed and multitasking might not get as good a workout with languages.

Teaching then different levels of creative and synthesising genius are generally the top levels of development of most skills. So matching the skill levels might be an exact test for differences e.g. music teachers versus language teachers.