I’m starting a new category here on books I’ve read, mostly to keep track of what I’ve read and what I thought about it.
I’ll start with Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. I read about this in Wired and maybe somewhere else on the web also. I even posted about it before [...]
Wired: Can playing music alter the structure of your brain?
Oliver Sacks: Very strikingly. In musicians, parts of the corpus callosum —the bridge betwteen the two hemispheres— are enlarged, and there’s more gray matter in the cerebellum. While you can’t tell by a glance at someone’s brain if they’re a writer or a mathematician, you can [...]
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