The following link is currently free to read and summarizes findings from fairly recent long term studies of brain development differeces between musicians and non musicians as well as musical students with one year or more of trainimg.
Temporal novelty detection improves in the hippocampus. To me this means that the brain develops to better represent sound. You can think of music as a stress, and the brain builds up to better respond to it. Along with this come some benefits including pleasure, an increased interest in music and an enhanced ability to appreciate more kinds of music.
There have also been other studies. One decades ago I heard of found that music stimulates neurons in geometric patterns somewhere at the back of tje brain. I cannot currently recall where I read that, however it potentially explains how brains distinguish music from noise.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619060/
Temporal novelty detection improves in the hippocampus. To me this means that the brain develops to better represent sound. You can think of music as a stress, and the brain builds up to better respond to it. Along with this come some benefits including pleasure, an increased interest in music and an enhanced ability to appreciate more kinds of music.
There have also been other studies. One decades ago I heard of found that music stimulates neurons in geometric patterns somewhere at the back of tje brain. I cannot currently recall where I read that, however it potentially explains how brains distinguish music from noise.