Music Training makes the brain learn better

` Music Makes the Brain Learn Better The hours spent mastering the violin or piano are worthwhile - music lessons boost children s memories. Researchers from Hong Kong have found children who are given musical training have better verbal memories... More

` Music Makes the Brain Learn Better The hours spent mastering the violin or piano are worthwhile - music lessons boost children s memories. Researchers from Hong Kong have found children who are given musical training have better verbal memories than those who have not had lessons. They say their findings could help people recovering from a brain injury as well as healthy children. Psychologists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied 90 boys between the ages of six and 15. Half had been given musical training as members of their school s string orchestra and had received lessons in playing classical music on Western instruments, for up to five years. The rest, all students at the same school, had received no musical training. Stimulation All the children were given verbal memory tests, to see how many words they recalled from a list, and a visual memory test for images. Those students who had been given music lessons recalled significantly more w Less