Well... I chose this article because I really love the music and I think is very important to know about it. As I said in my past oral test, the music is a very useful therapeutic element, so I have seen a lot of utilities in my short life as a Occupational therapist student, and now this article is a scientist evidence about the effects o music in the persons development.
Here is the link of the original article
Here is the link of the original article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060920093024.htm
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df6ct5cx_5tpmzs3
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df6ct5cx_5tpmzs3
Summary
Title:
First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children
(article published on September 20, 2006)
A Canadian research team after doing some test in musically trained children compared with untrained children and analyzing their MEG (magnetoencephalography) and their cerebral functions, have found that there are differences in their cerebral development. The first group have improved many cognitive skills like attention and especially memory comparing the other group.
The study was done in McMaster University in canadá and published on September of 2006. The researchers found 6 children starting music lessons after school with Suzuki method, without to taking into account their musical talents, and 6 children like control group who had no music lessons after school.
An explanation of the difference in the cerebral development is that the music have influence on sensory and motor activities causing changes in the cerebral cortex and even their electrical conduction, that was faster in their brains.
The most interesting thing of the study is that the children with early musical training not only improve listening skills, but also other skills not related to music like memory and attention, visiospatial processing, verbal and mathematical abilities, etc., so a good suggestion is that music lessons should be included in schools, especially for the youngest children.
