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Music is Important for Young Children
Now We Know What We ve Always Suspected: Music is Important for Young Children!
Why Is Music So Important for Preschoolers?
Music is a valuable activity that contributes immensely to the development of a child.
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Music is Important for Young Children
Now We Know What We ve Always Suspected: Music is Important for Young Children!
Why Is Music So Important for Preschoolers?
Music is a valuable activity that contributes immensely to the development of a child.
Here is some
of the research that shows why, presented as it has unfolded over the last 15 years.
1985 Gordon Shaw and fellow researchers present a new model of the brain s neuronal structure.
1989 Experiments in which musicians perform mental rehearsals of music indicate that music and
other creative skills, such as mathematics and chess, may involve extremely precise firing patterns by
billions of brain neurons (Leslie Brothers and Gordon Shaw in Models of Brain Function, edited by
R.
Cotterdill.
)
1991 Gordon Shaw and a fellow researcher propose that music may be considered a "prelanguage"
and that early music training may be useful in "exercising" the brain for certain higher cognitive
functions.
(Concepts in Neuroscience, Vol 2,
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