Primed to Succeed

An article was published this week in Science Daily previewing the results of the Northwestern University study that your children may have participated in.

It is clear from many of the article's claims that those of us fortunate enough to have received music instruction from a young age will then go on to be more fortunate in life through the skills we amassed during that instruction. Some of the claims this study makes are:

• Musical children will have a better vocabulary and stronger reading ability
• Music training primes the brain to better choose relevant information when faced with the need for quick selection
  
• Musicians are better at incorporating sound patterns for new languages into words
• Musicians are primed to understand speech better in a noisy environment
• Children with learning disorders may be helped significantly by developing their musical skills

For a link to the full article, click here. Now go celebrate what you have opted to do for yourself and your child and go practice the piano!
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