Benefits of Early Music Lessons

Music and the mind
by Jane ChristmasSeptember 20, 2006

Young children who take music lessons show advanced brain development and improved memory over those children who do not take music lessons. It is the first study to show changes in brain responses over the course of a year of musical training.
The findings by researchers at McMaster University's Institute for Music and the Mind and the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest appear in the October issue of Brain, and are being released today in the journal's advance online edition.
"While the greater improvement that we found in musical tasks is not surprising... Read More