A BRAIN-conditioning therapy called neurofeedback can help music students improve their performance by the equivalent of one grade or class of honours.
During neurofeedback, a person learns to control the patterns of electrical activity produced by their brain. Tobias Egner from Imperial College London at Charing Cross Hospital and colleagues tested the technique on students from the Royal College of Music in London. The students’ brain activity was monitored as they played video games or listened to relaxing music and fed back into the video or audio output so the students could influence the speed of the games or music…
