Aamodt and Wang's book is a concise and engaging neuroscience primer, exploring several brain-issues of interest to laypeople, including mental illness, memory, addiction, sexual behavior, and mental fitness. One of the book's sections briefly explores the connection between music and the brain.
The authors note the parallels between music and language: both have "elements arranged into sequences which are variable, but follow certain rules".
Research suggests that learning to play a musical instrument, as opposed to passive listening, improves spatial reasoning skills. fMRIs reveal that musical harmony tasks activate Broca's area, a region in the brain necessary for speech production, and a corresponding area in the right hemisphere that is important for prosody (intonation).
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