{"id":662,"date":"2006-09-26T19:30:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=662"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T17:01:35","slug":"music-is-good-for-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/music-is-good-for-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Music is good for the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/09\/060920093024.htm\">A kid&#8217;s brain, anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers have found the first evidence that 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.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published today (20 September 2006) in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of musically-trained children respond to music in a different way to those of the untrained children, but also that the training improves their memory as well. After one year the musically trained children performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very small study. But interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kid&#8217;s brain, anyway. Researchers have found the first evidence that 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. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/music-is-good-for-the-brain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}