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Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science<\/h1>\n
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If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn’t want to go; maybe you didn’t like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns out that all those endless major scale exercises and repetitions of “Chopsticks<\/a>” had some incredible effects on our minds.<\/p>\n

Psychological studies continue to uncover more and more benefits that music lessons provide to developing minds. One incredibly comprehensive longitudinal study, produced by the\u00a0German Socio-Economic Panel\u00a0<\/a>in 2013, stated the power of music lessons as plain as could be: “Music improves cognitive and non-cognitive skills more than twice as much as sports, theater or dance.” The study found that kids who take music lessons “have better cognitive skills and school grades and are more conscientious, open and ambitious.” And that’s just the beginning.<\/p>\n

The following list is a sampling of the vast amount of neurological benefits that music lessons can provide. Considering this vast diversity, it’s baffling that there are still kids in this country who are not receiving high-quality music education in their schools. Every kid should have this same shot at success.<\/p>\n

1. It improved your reading and verbal skills.<\/h3>\n
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Several<\/a>\u00a0studies have found strong links between pitch processing and language processing abilities. Researchers out of Northwestern University\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that five skills underlie language acquisition: “phonological awareness, speech-in-noise perception, rhythm perception, auditory working memory and the ability to learn sound patterns.” Through reviewing a series of longitudinal studies, they discovered that each these skills is exercised and strengthened by music lessons. Children randomly assigned to music training alongside reading training performed much better than those who received other forms of non-musical stimulation, such as painting or other visual arts. You’ve got to kind of feel bad for those kids randomly assigned into art classes.<\/p>\n

2. It improved your mathematical and spatial-temporal reasoning.<\/h3>\n
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Music is deeply mathematical in nature. Mathematical relationships determine intervals in scales, the arrangement of keys and the subdivisions of rhythm. It makes sense then that children who receive high-quality music training also tend to\u00a0score higher<\/a>\u00a0in math. This is because of the\u00a0improved<\/a>\u00a0abstract spatial-temporal skills young musicians gain. According to a feature written for PBS Education, these skills are vital for solving the multistep problems that\u00a0occur<\/a>\u00a0in “architecture, engineering, math, art, gaming and especially working with computers.” With these gains, and those in verbal and reading abilities, young musicians can pretty much help themselves succeed in any field they decide to pursue.<\/p>\n

3. It helped your grades.<\/h3>\n
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In a 2007 study, Christopher Johnson, a professor of music education and music therapy at the University of Kansas,\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that “elementary schools with superior music education programs scored around 22% higher in English and 20% higher in math scores on standardized tests compared to schools with low-quality music programs.” A 2013 study out of\u00a0Canada<\/a>\u00a0found the same. Every year that scores were measured, the mean grades of the students who chose music were higher than those who chose other extracurriculars. While neither of these studies can necessarily prove causality, both do point out a strongcorrelative connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. It raised your IQ.<\/h3>\n
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Surprisingly, though music is primarily an emotional art form, music training actually provides bigger\u00a0gains<\/a>in academic IQ than emotional IQ. Numerous studies have found that musicians generally boast\u00a0higher IQs<\/a>than non-musicians. And while these lessons don’t necessarily guarantee you’ll be smarter than the schlub who didn’t learn music, they definitely made you smarter than you would have been without them.<\/p>\n

5. It helped you learn languages more quickly.<\/h3>\n
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Children who start studying music early in life develop stronger linguistic abilities. They develop morecomplex vocabularies<\/a>, a more nuanced understanding of\u00a0grammar<\/a>\u00a0and higher\u00a0verbal IQs<\/a>. These benefits don’t just impact children’s learning of their first language, but also their ability to learn every language they attempt to learn in the future. The\u00a0Guardian<\/i><\/a>\u00a0reports: “Music training plays a key role in the development of a foreign language in its grammar, colloquialisms and vocabulary.” These heightened language acquisition abilities will follow students their whole lives and will aid them when they need to pick up new tongues late in adulthood.<\/p>\n

6. It made you a better listener, which will help a lot when you’re older.<\/h3>\n
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Musical training makes people far more sensitive listeners, which can help tremendously as people age. Musicians who keep up with their instrument enjoy a much slower decline in “peripheral hearing<\/a>.” They can avoid what scientists refer to as the “cocktail party problem<\/a>” in which older people have trouble isolating specific voices (or musical tones) from a noisy background.<\/p>\n

7. It will slow the effects of aging.<\/h3>\n
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But beyond just auditory processing, musical training can also help delay\u00a0cognitive decline\u00a0<\/a>associated with aging. Some of the most promising research positions music as an effective way to stave off dementia. Studies out of Emory University find that even if musicians stop playing as they age, the neurological restructuring that occurred when they were kids helps them\u00a0perform better<\/a>\u00a0on “object-naming, visuospatial memory and rapid mental processing and flexibility” tests than others who never played. The study authors add, though, that musicians had to play for at least 10 years to enjoy these effects. Hopefully you stuck with it long enough.<\/p>\n

8. It strengthened your motor cortex.<\/h3>\n
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All musical instruments require high levels of finger dexterity and accuracy. The training works out the motor cortex to an incredible extent, and the benefits can apply to a wide range of non-musical skills. Research published in the Journal of Neuroscience in 2013\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that kids who start learning to play before the age of 7 perform far better on non-musical movement tasks. Exposure at a young age builds connectivity in the corpus callosum, which provides a\u00a0strong foundation<\/a>\u00a0upon which later movement training can build.<\/p>\n

9. It improved your working memory.<\/h3>\n
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Playing music puts a high level of demand on one’s working memory (or short-term memory). And it seems the more one practices their instrument, the stronger their working memory becomes. A 2013 study\u00a0found<\/a>that musical practice has a positive association with participants’ working memory capacity, their processing speed and their reasoning abilities. Writing for\u00a0Psychology Today,<\/i>\u00a0William R. Klemm\u00a0<\/a>claims that musicians’ memory abilities should\u00a0spread<\/a>\u00a0into all non-musical verbal realms, helping them remember more content from speeches, lectures or soundtracks.<\/p>\n

10. It improved your long-term memory for visual stimuli.<\/h3>\n
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Music training can also affect long-term memory, especially in the visual realm. Scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington reported last year that classically trained musicians who have been playing more than 15 years\u00a0score higher<\/a>\u00a0on pictorial long-term memory tests. This heightened visual sensitivity likely comes from\u00a0parsing<\/a>\u00a0complex musical scores. The study makes no claims for musicians who learn to play without reading music.<\/p>\n

11. It made you better at managing anxiety.<\/h3>\n
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Analyzing brain scans of musicians ages 6 through 18, researchers out of the University of Vermont College of Medicine have found tremendous\u00a0thickening<\/a>\u00a0of the cortex in areas responsible for depression, aggression and attention problems. According to the study’s authors, musical training “accelerated cortical organization in attention skill, anxiety management and emotional control.” That’s why you’re so emotionally grounded all the time, right? Right.<\/p>\n

12. It enhanced your self-confidence and self-esteem.<\/h3>\n
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Several studies have shown how music can enhance children’s self-confidence and self-esteem. A 2004 study split a sample of 117 fourth graders from a Montreal public school. One group received weekly piano instruction for three years while the control received no formal instructions. Those who played weekly scored\u00a0significantly higher<\/a>\u00a0on self-esteem tests than those who did not. As most of us know, high levels of self-esteem can help children\u00a0grow and develop<\/a>\u00a0in a vast number of academic and non-academic realms.<\/p>\n

13. It made you more creative.<\/h3>\n
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Creativity is notoriously difficult to measure scientifically. All measures generally leave something to be desired. But most sources hold that music training\u00a0enhances<\/a>\u00a0creativity “particularly when the musical activity itself is creative (for instance, improvisation).” According to\u00a0Education Week<\/a>, Ana Pinho, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, found that musicians with “longer experience in improvising music had better and more targeted activity in the regions of the brain associated with creativity.” Music training also enhances communication between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. And studies show musicians perform far better on\u00a0divergent thinking tests<\/a>, coming up with greater numbers of novel, unexpected ways to combine new information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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