Amir Mano

PhD Candidate in Neuroscience Music & Neuroplasticity Trombonist, Musician

About Me

Amir Mano

How does learning music change the brain?

I study how musical training shapes brain structure, connectivity, and function, using multimodal MRI and structural connectomics. I'm a PhD candidate in computational neuroscience at the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, in Prof. Yaniv Assaf's lab.

Why music? I've played the trombone for over a decade — an experience that gave me a first-hand sense of how demanding it is to acquire a complex skill, and motivates my use of music as a model for studying how the brain learns.