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06/08/2018 / By Janine Acero

A musical education improves academic performance across the board

Music is known to help children with cognitive development, but one study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience found that structured music lessons significantly enhance children’s academic performance by improving their cognitive abilities, including language-based learning and short-term memory. In addition, visual arts lessons were also found to improve children’s visual and spatial memory. Schools have prioritized academic learning […]

05/08/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Music improves your brain: Study finds musicians are better at solving problems and making decisions

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, so wrote the playwright-poet William Congreve. Science has shown that music can also heal and slow down the aging process. But new research has found one more reason to learn this universal language: Music can actually make you smarter. Researchers from the University of Granada observed the neurological changes that […]

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