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Children’s brains shaped by music training
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/children%E2%80%99s-brains-shaped-music-
training
Musical training tunes the developing brain, scientists report in the Sept.
3 Journal of Neuroscience. After two years in a music enrichment program,
children in Los Angeles had more sophisticated brain responses to spoken
syllables than kids who had only a year of training.
Researchers led by neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University
studied 44 children enrolled with the Harmony Project, an organization that
brings music training to kids in low-income communities. The children began
music lessons when they were on average 8 years old. After two years of
lessons, but not one, kids’ brains showed distinct responses to the rapidly
spoken sounds “ba” and “ga.”
Electrodes placed on the kids’ scalps revealed millisecond-scale
differences in brain activity in response to the syllables, suggesting that
the more musically trained brains were better at distinguishing between the
sounds. This neural distinction has been linked to real-life skills such as
reading and the ability to pick out speech from a noisy din, says Kraus.
She and her colleagues hope to expand their research and bring musical
training to more children. “We’ve opened the window a crack, but I’m
hoping it can be thrown wide open,” she says.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/children%E2%80%99s-brains-shaped-music-
training
Musical training tunes the developing brain, scientists report in the Sept.
3 Journal of Neuroscience. After two years in a music enrichment program,
children in Los Angeles had more sophisticated brain responses to spoken
syllables than kids who had only a year of training.
Researchers led by neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University
studied 44 children enrolled with the Harmony Project, an organization that
brings music training to kids in low-income communities. The children began
music lessons when they were on average 8 years old. After two years of
lessons, but not one, kids’ brains showed distinct responses to the rapidly
spoken sounds “ba” and “ga.”
Electrodes placed on the kids’ scalps revealed millisecond-scale
differences in brain activity in response to the syllables, suggesting that
the more musically trained brains were better at distinguishing between the
sounds. This neural distinction has been linked to real-life skills such as
reading and the ability to pick out speech from a noisy din, says Kraus.
She and her colleagues hope to expand their research and bring musical
training to more children. “We’ve opened the window a crack, but I’m
hoping it can be thrown wide open,” she says.
