This ability also has an impact on how our memory systems work.
这种能力也能影响记忆系统的运作。
And, indeed, musicians exhibit enhanced memory functions,
的确，音乐家有提高的记忆力功能，
creating, storing, and retrieving memories more quickly and efficiently.
能更快、有效创造、储存、重拾记忆。
Studies have found that musicians appear to use their highly connected brains to give each memory multiple tags,
研究发现，音乐家似乎用他们高度连接的大脑给予每个记忆多个标签，
such as a conceptual tag, an emotional tag, an audio tag,
例如，概念性标签、情感标签、声音标签、
and a contextual tag, like a good Internet search engine.
语境标签等，犹如一个好的网络搜寻引擎。
How do we know that all these benefits are unique to music, as opposed to, say, sports or painting?
那如何得知这些是音乐特有的益处而不是运动或绘画等会有的益处？
Or could it be that people who go into music were already smarter to begin with?
或者接触音乐的人会不会一开始就比较聪明？
Neuroscientists have explored these issues, but so far, they have found that the artistic
神经科学家已探索这些问题，但目前为止，发现了在学习演奏乐器的艺术、
and aesthetic aspects of learning to play a musical instrument are different from any other activity studied, including other arts.
审美方面不同于其它研究过的活动，包括其它艺术。
And several randomized studies of participants,
一些随机研究在开始时，
who showed the same levels of cognitive function and neural processing at the start,
认知功能和神经处理有相同水平的参与者，
found that those who were exposed to a period of music learning showed enhancement in multiple brain areas, compared to the others.
其中有受过一段音乐学习的人相对于其他人显示多个增强的脑区域。
This recent research about the mental benefits of playing music has advanced our understanding of mental function,
这有关演奏音乐对脑有益处的近期研究提升了我们对脑功能的理解，
revealing the inner rhythms and complex interplay that make up the amazing orchestra of our brain.
显示出构成脑内精彩管弦乐团内在的节奏以及复杂的互动。
