Music lessons improve kids' brain development, memory: study

According to researchers at McMaster University, children as young as four years old start to show signs of brain development and memory improvement when taking music lessons. To prove their theory, researchers have used magnetoencephalography brain scanning technology to compare changes within the brain with 12 children ages four to six. Professor Laurel Tainor stated that taking these music lessons are setting up networks and increasing the brain responses in the childs' brain. Tainor also said that these lesssons could lead to improvement in literacy, verbal memory and mathematics. In the value of education, in previous studies it has been founf that children taking music or drama classes have greater improvements on IQ scores. I agree with this research because from my own experience being in a choir has helped me remember lots of different musics even after years of singing them.

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