This paper reviews the empirical evidence relating to the effects of active engagement with
music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. It …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Power of Music a research synthesis of the impact of actively
making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young …

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech.
This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The “OPERA” hypothesis …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

Objective: Intensive repetitive musical practice can lead to bilateral cortical reorganization.
However, whether musical sensorimotor and cognitive abilities transfer to nonmusical …

We tested theories of links between musical expertise and language ability in a sample of 6-
to 9-year-old children. Language ability was measured with tests of speech perception and …

Background Several studies have found that musicians perform better than nonmusicians in
memory tasks, but this is not always the case, and the strength of this apparent advantage is …