This paper outlines the new opportunities that that will be changing the landscape of
geometry education at the primary school level. These include: the research on spatial …

Aging is accompanied by cognitive decline, although recent research indicates that the rate
of decline depends on multiple lifestyle factors. One of such factors is musical practice, an …

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 …

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

Musical training is known to modify cortical organization. Here, we show that such
modifications extend to subcortical sensory structures and generalize to processing of …

Abstract In Study 1 (N= 147), duration of music lessons was correlated positively with IQ and
with academic ability among 6-to 11-year-olds, even when potential confounding variables …

Although links between music training and cognitive abilities are relatively well‐established,
unresolved issues include the generality of the association, the direction of causation, and …

The idea that extensive musical training can influence processing in cognitive domains other
than music has received considerable attention from the educational system and the media …

Instrumental music training has been shown to enhance cognitive processing beyond
general intelligence. We examined this assumption with regard to working memory …

Abstract Language and music are closely related in our minds. Does musical expertise
enhance the recognition of emotions in speech prosody? Forty highly trained musicians …