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This ability also has an impact on how our memory systems work.
這種能力也能影響記憶系統的運作。
And, indeed, musicians exhibit enhanced memory functions,
的確，音樂家有提高的記憶力功能，
creating, storing, and retrieving memories more quickly and efficiently.
能更快、有效創造、儲存、重拾記憶。
Studies have found that musicians appear to use their highly connected brains to give each memory multiple tags,
研究發現，音樂家似乎用他們高度連接的大腦給予每個記憶多個標簽，
such as a conceptual tag, an emotional tag, an audio tag,
例如，概念性標簽、情感標簽、聲音標簽、
and a contextual tag, like a good Internet search engine.
語境標簽等，猶如一個好的網絡搜尋引擎。
How do we know that all these benefits are unique to music, as opposed to, say, sports or painting?
那如何得知這些是音樂特有的益處而不是運動或繪畫等會有的益處？
Or could it be that people who go into music were already smarter to begin with?
或者接觸音樂的人會不會一開始就比較聰明？
Neuroscientists have explored these issues, but so far, they have found that the artistic
神經科學家已探索這些問題，但目前為止，發現了在學習演奏樂器的藝術、
and aesthetic aspects of learning to play a musical instrument are different from any other activity studied, including other arts.
審美方面不同于其它研究過的活動，包括其它藝術。
And several randomized studies of participants,
一些隨機研究在開始時，
who showed the same levels of cognitive function and neural processing at the start,
認知功能和神經處理有相同水平的參與者，
found that those who were exposed to a period of music learning showed enhancement in multiple brain areas, compared to the others.
其中有受過一段音樂學習的人相對于其他人顯示多個增強的腦區域。
This recent research about the mental benefits of playing music has advanced our understanding of mental function,
這有關演奏音樂對腦有益處的近期研究提升了我們對腦功能的理解，
revealing the inner rhythms and complex interplay that make up the amazing orchestra of our brain.
顯示出構成腦內精彩管弦樂團內在的節奏以及復雜的互動。
