Bianca Nogrady helped clarify why some people are just plain better at music than others. In an article she wrote for ABC Science Online, she pointed out that musicians get more out of music because their brain waves are better able to synchronize with musical rhythms.
Cortical oscillations — the rhythmic firing of neurons in the brain — are fundamental to our ability to hear and process sounds. Aligning the frequency of these cortical oscillations with the frequency of the sounds we wish to focus on allows us to better tune into these sounds; for example, …Read more