1. Significant difference between a musician’s brain and a non-
musician’s: In playing a certain instrument, a child’s brain
performs a lot of complex physical and mental operations which
enable him to visually present the music symbols through finger
coordination and recognition of sounds. Scientists such as
Schlaug and Gauser believe that this could be the reason why the
gray matter volume (a measure of density of brain cells in a
certain brain region) of a musician’s brain is greater than that
of non-musician. They derived this conclusion from a study they
conducted, where in they compared the brain structure of
professional musicians, amateur musicians and non-musicians. 2.
More developed Motor Skills and Brain Connections Another
experiment was conducted by Winner and Schlaug, where they
performed a test on 59 children, ages 9-11. 41 of these children
were given regular music training for 15 months while the rest
did not. The results showed that the musically trained children
showed better finger coordina