Long Term Effects of Music Study

I’m working on the next interview post right now, but I thought that in the meantime I would bring this nifty study to your attention. It’s been reported  in the New York Times and Huffington Post, and it suggests that childhood music lesson have lasting impacts on the brain even in late adulthood. Participants with four to fourteen years of musical training processed sound (and speech) faster, even though they hadn’t had music lessons for forty years or so. Childhood music instruction has been implicated in beneficial changes in brain structure and improved spatial reasoning, among other cognitive benefits. I’ve included the links to the New York Times and HuffPo articles. Happy practicing!