Scientists have used it as a model to study how a musician's brain enables the advanced and complex motor skills needed to perform musical work, how the brain processes verbal versus nonverbal and how it processes complex temporal information. After years of research, two findings prove particularly important for the use of music in rehabilitation. First, learning music changes the brain. And second, the brain areas activated by music are not exclusive to music, these areas of the brain that process music also process other functions. An example of the first finding, that learning music changes the brain, is research that clearly shows that through such learning, the auditory and motor areas of the brain become larger and interact more efficiently. For example, after just a few weeks of training beginner pianists, the areas of their brains used for manual control become larger and more connected. It quickly became clear that music can stimulate the plasticity of the human brain, shaping it through training and learning.