Posts Tagged ‘playing-music’
Playing Music as a Protection Against Dementia
In a recent post we saw that music may help people with dementia learn new facts. This article explores another relationship between music and dementia: playing a musical instrument, even as an amateur, may protect the brain later on against dementia-related damages. Researchers had 70 people ages 60 to 83 perform a variety of tests…
Read MoreDo we need more music education?
We recently published an article examining the “Mozart effect” and the conclusions were that there is very little evidence that listening to music does boost mental functions. However learning to play an instrument does seem to do the trick. In this recent Scientific American article, the editors point out that:
Read MoreOur Brain on Music: We need to do more than listen
Brain and Music are inter-related. Recent studies show that playing music to your children can grow up smart.
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