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Delving into a musician's brain
A new study says that professional musicians are a little different. British researchers recently scanned the brains of a number of classical musicians. They found that no matter what type of instrument was played, all of the professionals had an enlargement in one region of the brain. In addition, the more years the musicians spent in training, the larger the region was. The region is known as Broca's area, and it's known to play a key role in our ability to speak and understand language. This is the first time someone has shown such a clear link between musical ability and Broca's area, or between music and language in general.

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Hear are some other articles on the music/language connection

Chords strike a grammatical note
The brain region that senses sentences also tells music from noise. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010426/010426-4.html

Left in music
Musicians' brains may use language modules listening to music. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010816/010816-4.html

Exploring the Musical Brain
Music may be even more ancient than the human race, over which it holds tremendous sway. Scientists are beginning to find out why http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...81809EC588EF21