04/30/2024
"Recent research carried out by MIT and published in the Journal of Neuroscience is now showing how powerful music can be on a child’s brain development.
According to the authors of the study, learning music during our early life makes the brain more connected, which in turn, makes their brains neurologically capable of many things, not just music.
What they found in their study was that musical brains produce more structural and functional connections when compared to those who don’t learn music.
Researchers had professional musicians and non-musicians go in for brain scans. Once the scans were taken, they were compared. What they found, was that the musicians all have “strikingly similar networks.’ They had far more structural and functional connections than non-musicians, especially in the areas that were connected to speech and sound.
Another factor that played a major role was how early the musicians had begun learning music. “The earlier the musicians had started with musical practice, the stronger these connectivities”.
