How Music Improves Students Academic Peformance?

I played a trumpet (rental) for 2 years during middle school. Now, I'm playing guitar and piano when I have the chance. However, singing is my thang!..

http://www.medicaldaily.com/music-education-improves-students-academic-performance-active-participation-required-314508

"...Music and language have a special relationship that Kraus and her team are only beginning to understand. In the study, which appears online in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology, the team showed that exposure to music lessons physically stimulated the brain and changed it for the better. However, simply being exposed to music education doesn’t seem to be sufficient, you have to also be actively involved....

...The team looked at the neural differences of the children participating in the Harmony Project by using electrode wires with button sensors to capture the brain’s responses. Although Kraus’s past research has shown the music education caused greater gains in speech processing, and thus reading, in her current project Kraus realized the type of music education offered also influenced how great these gains would be. For example, children who learned how to play a musical instrument showed stronger language skills than children who took music appreciation courses....






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