News tagged with musical training

Taking music seriously: How music training primes nervous system and boosts learning

Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players -- whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga -- only hint at music's effect on the soul throughout the ages.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Taking up music so you can hear

Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Perfect pitch study offers window into influences of nature and nurture

Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Neuroscientist: Think twice about cutting music in schools

At a press briefing today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a Northwestern University neuroscientist will argue that music training has profound effects that shape the sensory system ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0