“Young children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year, compared to children who do not receive musical training.” Dr. Laurel Trainor, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience,
and Behaviour at McMaster University, Canada, 2006
“The relationship between musical and linguistic stimulus processing has been examined on a neurophysiological level in various studies and using various techniques, which reveal that both words and musical tones caused similar activity in the left superior temporal sulcus, temporal medial gyrus, angular gyrus, and frontal lateral lobe. It has also been shown that the primary auditory regions and supplementary motor areas respond similarly to linguistic and musical stimuli.” - Binder, Frost, Hammeke, Rai & Cox, 1996
“Meta-analyses indicate that there is `a strong and reliable association between the study of music and performance on standardized reading and verbal tests´… Research now offers a theoretical basis for, and growing evidence of, the significant effects of learning shared between music and other measures of academic achievement.”
– Dr. Larry Scripp, An Overview of Research on Music and LearningI will be posting more music advocacy and research quotes soon : )
It is rewarding and motivating to be a music educator! |