#symmetrically

         a single definitive moment.  blinded by grief, heartache that evolved from RAGE she had previously quelled for his sake.  no more. no more.  feet grounded to the rustic ground and what would have been considered the muscles of her limbs  ( were she more than mere container ) lock steadily in place to assert herself.  HOLD YOUR GROUND.  your brother  ------  blinded thoughts formed from the hapless bond between them since birth, her only fondness is the weight anchoring her.  ------  is no longer your brother.  

     MADNESS,  MADNESS OVERWHELMS.  she was the weaker of the two, the beloved puppet of the two; she will not prove his claim in displaying sadness. although she will mourn. for her brother is lost.  i don’t know you anymore!  the irony  -----  one half of arrogance corrupted altogether, the other tainted by MORALITY.  (  the woman  ----  the mother   is to blame.  )

                    ❛   I WON’T TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU.   ❜    with these words the hideous nature of their relationship is unveiled for both, the idea of inseparable equality a facade much like the ones that have played as so-called children.   ❛   not from an abomination who consumes those of his own kind for imminent failure  --------  not from a brother who i know will destroy his sister to retain his pride!  ❜

                                         AND WITH THAT, ARTEMIS STRUCK APOLLO.      

                      she approaches the subject tentatively, as if testing the waters on the tricky matter. she isn’t sure how he will react, how he feels. once, their emotions were synchronized  ----  amongst other actions, thoughts, and so on forth  ----  and altogether were they a single identity. now, there are instances where she feels lost because she cannot decipher what he is thinking even after all these years.

                                                  ❛  -------------- you are beginning to look like him.  ❜

       she knows how much he means well, how much he wants for this to work. he’s excitable, which can lead to an influx of honesty that might be a much.  ( and ---- given these are first impressions ---- they’re probably already in trouble )  she can sense his frustration over the bewildered and skeptical neighbors.

                                    ❛  ------------------ sweetheart, i think you’re scaring off the neighbors. ❜  

                                 ❛   i  love  you.  ❜  

   shaken.  raw.  she  means  it.  god  help  her,  she  means  it.

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Musicians’ Brains Fire Symmetrically When they Listen to Music

Music can be a transformative experience, especially for your brain. Musicians’ brains respond more symmetrically to the music they listen to. And the size of the effect depends on which instrument they play.

People who learn to play musical instruments can expect their brains to change in structure and function. When people are taught to play a piece of piano music, for example, the part of their brains that represents their finger movements gets bigger. Musicians are also better at identifying pitch and speech sounds – brain imaging studies suggest that this is because their brains respond more quickly and strongly to sound.

Other research has found that the corpus callosum – the strip of tissue that connects the left and right hemisphere of the brain – is also larger in musicians. Might this mean that the two halves of a musician’s brain are better at communicating with each other compared with non-musicians?

Not your forte?

To find out, Iballa Burunat at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and her colleagues used an fMRI scanner to look at the brains of 18 musicians and 18 people who have never played professionally. The professional musicians – all of whom had a degree in music – included cellists, violinists, keyboardists and bassoon and trombone players.

While they were in the scanner, all of the participants were played three different pieces of music – prog rock, an Argentinian tango and some Stravinsky. Burunat recorded how their brains responded to the music, and used software to compare the activity of the left and right hemispheres of each person’s brain.

Part of the corpus callosum connecting the two brain hemispheres was indeed larger in musicians. The team also found that musicians’ brains seemed to fire more symmetrically when they listened to music the activity in the left and right hemispheres was a much closer match than that of the non-musicians.

The brains of keyboard players seemed to respond more symmetrically than those of musicians who played string instruments. Burunat thinks that this is because the playing the keyboard requires a more symmetrical use of your hands.

How clef-er

“Keyboard players have a more mirrored use of both hands and fingers when playing,” says Burunat. “Although playing a string instrument also requires fine motor skills and hand coordination, it enforces a strict asynchrony between left-hand and right-hand finger movements.”

“It is surprising that the effect is instrument-specific,” says Marcus Pearce at Queen Mary, University of London. “It’s one thing to see differences in brain activity when they’re playing their instruments, but they’re just listening,” he says. “The perception of music is changed with musical training.”

The team think the two halves of a musician’s brain may be better at communicating than those of a non-musician. But they don’t know if this enhanced connection will give musicians an upper hand when it comes to other skills that involve using two hands, such as typing. Or even whether other people who use both hands almost equally would show similar brain patterns.