Thursday, January 10, 2013

More Evidence Music Training Boosts Brainpower

More Evidence Music Training Boosts Brainpower

A German study finds young children who took instrumental music lessons did better than their peers on verbal memory tests.


Want your child to get better and better with words? Put a musical instrument in his or her hands.
That’s the implication of a new paper from Germany, which confirms and augments research conducted in Canada, and Hong Kong. Across cultures, it appears, training on a musical instrument improves kids’ verbal memory.

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