Biological Evidence for Long-Term Training-Driven Plasticity
by Travis White-Schwoch, Kali Woodruff Carr, Samira Anderson, Dana L. Strait, and Nina Kraus
Studies addressed in this article examine the effects of nominal, moderate and lifelong amounts of music training. Results show that not only does lifelong music training help diminish age-related declines, but “… a neural enhancement [can be] linked to a moderate amount of music training many decades after training has stopped.”