Many people, including me, were enrolled in different instrument lessons. Personally, I was enrolled in piano lessons at a young age. When I was older, I asked my mom why she enrolled me into piano ...

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Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and ...

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Musical training around the age of five has a unique ability to enhance kindergartners’ speech perception and language skills according to a new study contributed by Robert Desimone of the ...

A new study has found that learning to play a musical instrument could be the secret to keeping our brains young. Scientists connected to the new study also shared a second benefit: They found that ...

More than 80% of Americans are convinced that music lessons improve their children’s grades and intelligence. But two new randomized trials from Harvard are showing that it’s simply not true. Back in ...

From a general perspective, harmony in music is the balance of the proportions between the different parts of a whole, which causes a feeling of pleasure. When we listen to music, each sound we hear ...

Drummers and brass players are better able to judge the timing of visual stimuli than members of the color guard, according to a naturalistic study of the world-class drum corps Bluecoats. This ...

Music perception and training constitute a multidisciplinary field that explores the intricate interplay between acoustic signals, neural processing and experiential learning. At its core, the study ...

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