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Music Lessons Offer Growth Promotion for Developing Minds Both Young and Adult
The hours spent practicing scales and reading music have a power for growth that cannot be denied.
Music lessons, the bain of many kids, have power that their parents and teachers may not realize. After one short-term study, researchers stated, “(our) study focused on pure instrumental music lessons, we can now conclude that playing a musical instrument is an appropriate intervention to benefit EFs (executive functioning) in elementary school-aged children.” Previous studies have shown an increased ability for memory, delay of rewards, planning, persistence, and even math ability.
We know that there are specific periods in life when the growth of brain networks facilitates learning. “The brain is shaped by experience throughout the lifespan but remains most receptive early in development. These moments of heightened receptivity, referred to as ‘sensitive periods,’ represent time windows when neural circuitry within a specific domain is particularly malleable, and training can have lifelong effects.”
The timeframe for these windows also spurs other aspects of development not related to music training, such as spatial and statistical relationships. These two appear to be quite closely associated…
