Music Advocacy Facts

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Pianists are more efficient at using their brains to make skilled movements.

From: "The Impact of Arts on Learning." MuSICa Research Notes 7, no. 2 (Spring 2000). Reporting on Krings, Timo et al. "Cortical Activation Patterns during Complex Motor Tasks in Piano Players and Control Subjects. A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagi

Available here: MENC - Benefits of Music Education Brochure, Spring 2002