Oliver sacks i said earlier that theres no one music centerand one of the things which is now apparent from brain imaging is that music can involve many different parts of the brain special . Early music lessons encourage brain plasticity the brains capacity to change and grow just a half hour music lesson increases blood flow in the left hemisphere of the brain and if kids dont stick with their music lessons forever thats ok theres evidence that a little bit of music training goes a long way. Music and the brain explores how music impacts brain function and human behavior including by reducing stress pain and symptoms of depression as well as improving cognitive and motor skills spatial temporal learning and neurogenesis which is the brains ability to produce neurons. Music plays an important role in learning in fact musical training stimulates different parts of the brain various studies have shown that listening to certain songs and melodies can improve memory in patients with alzheimers and other types of dementia