Research shows that time invested in practising pays off for young musicians
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 09:28
in Psychology & Sociology
A Harvard-based study published 29 October in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training - not only in tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity (skills honed by the study of a musical instrument), but also on tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion (skills not normally associated with music)...
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