How playing an instrument benefits the brain

Watch the video and complete the sentences: 

• Neuroscientists have made enormous ______________ (1) in understanding how the brain works.

• When researchers got the participants to listen to music they saw "__________" (2), multiple areas of their brain were ___________ (3) at once

• Playing music is the brain's equivalent of a ____________________________ (4)

• Playing a musical instrument engages practically every area of the brain ___________ (5), specially the visual, auditory and motor cortices. 

• The most obvious difference between listening to music and playing it is the latter requires ______________________ (6)

• The corpus callosum is the ______________ (7) between the two hemispheres. 

• Musicians exhibit enhanced memory functions: creating, storing and retrieving more __________________________ (8)

• Studies have found that those people who are exposed to a period of music learning, show __________________ (9) in multiple brain areas.