Music lessons improve children's cognitive abilities.
Structured music lessons significantly improve children's cognitive skills, including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition, leading to improved academic performance. Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the research is the first large-scale, longitudinal research to be adapted to mainstream school curriculum. Visual arts lessons were also found to significantly improve children's visual and spatial memory.
Music Education
Music education has decimated in schools around the world, due to competition with academic topics and an increasing lack of funding. Today, the ability to learn an instrument is seen as more of a luxury than a necessary part of education.
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