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If a person can drum, research says they're highly intelligent.

In a study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, researchers studied volunteers taking a 60-question intelligence test while keeping in time to a drumstick. They found that those with the best sense of rhythm scored better on the intelligence test.

"The rhythmic accuracy in brain activity that is observed when a person maintains a steady beat is also important to the problem-solving capacities measured with the intelligence tests," said Professor Frederic Ullen.

Not only that, but Harvard University researchers found that drummers have a different internal clock that imitates rhythm found in human brainwaves, sleep heart rates, and feline auditory nerve firings.

So not only do drummers make hot partners, they're smarter, happier, and move to the beat of their own bodies.

https://www.yourtango.com/self/person-musical-skill-highly-intelligent

Miközben haladunk előre a dobtanulás útján, egész életünk kiteljesedhet és kitágul egészen lehetőségeink határán túlra. Érezzük, hogy életünk valami fontosnak a része, hogy hozzájárulásunknak a világunkhoz értéke van.
Ami miatt a zenélés bámulatos, hogy hatása alatt létünket teljesebbnek érezhetjük, mint életünkben bármikor. Ilyenkor Viktor is ezt éli át.

Kristóf a mikulásnapi doboláson nagyot alakít.

Kristóf a mikulásnapi dobórán nagyot alakít.

Gyertek el és tapasztaljátok meg a ritmus fejlesztő erejét.

Pontosan.

🎵🧠 Want to protect your brain as you age? Play an instrument.

A new study shows that long-term musical training helps preserve youthful brain function, shielding against the mental slowdown that often comes with aging.

As we get older, the brain usually becomes less efficient at processing sounds and speech. To compensate, it works harder—recruiting extra connections between brain regions. But in older adults who had played music for many years, researchers found something remarkable:

Their brain activity patterns looked more like those of young adults.

They showed efficient, streamlined connectivity, especially in areas linking hearing and movement.

They performed better at identifying speech in noisy environments, a task that typically gets harder with age.

In the study, 25 older musicians, 25 older non-musicians, and 24 young adults completed brain scans while distinguishing syllables masked by background noise. Older non-musicians displayed the expected compensatory overactivity, while musicians’ brains maintained youthful-like efficiency—suggesting that musical training builds cognitive reserve.

The researchers call this the “Hold-Back Upregulation” hypothesis: instead of the brain overexerting to make up for losses, years of music-making help it hold onto strong, healthy networks.

This adds to growing evidence that playing an instrument isn’t just art—it’s brain exercise with lasting benefits.

📖 Paper: Lei Zhang, Bernhard Ross, Yi Du & Claude Alain. Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception. PLOS Biology, 15 July 2025.