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Biophysics of Brain Plasticity and Its Correlation to Music Learning

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Brain plasticity is one of the hallmarks of learning and memory. Even within a lifetime, human brains can change both structurally and functionally, which is a basis of the remarkable capacity of the brain to learn or unlearn and to memorize or forget. It has been established that the presence or absence of external cues can induce biological changes in the brain over an elongated time scale. The plasticity of the brain is manifested at the level of synapses, at networks, and even at single neurons, which is termed as the intrinsic plasticity. Learning involves all of these mechanisms of brain plasticity. Music learning is also attributable to the plasticity of the brain. It is known that music requires intensive brain activities at different regions, whether it is simply listening to a music pattern, or performing, or even imaging music. From a biophysical point of view, music perception and learning is a correlation between sound waves and the biological changes that they induce in the brain. In this chapter, we highlight how brain plasticity is relatable to music learning by discussing the mechanisms and the experimental evidences.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar, Assam, India

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  2. Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Emile Wennekes

  3. Multimedia Department, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Alicja Wieczorkowska

  4. Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar, India

    Rabul Hussain Laskar

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Talukdar, S., Ghosh, S. (2023). Biophysics of Brain Plasticity and Its Correlation to Music Learning. In: Biswas, A., Wennekes, E., Wieczorkowska, A., Laskar, R.H. (eds) Advances in Speech and Music Technology. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18444-4_14

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