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Making music has a major impact on language skills – Professor Susan Hallam

April 12, 2018 anitanee

A recent paper by Professor Susan Hallam from the UCL Institute of Education, concludes that making music has a major impact on the development of language skills among children and young people.

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Music training started in secondary school can have an impact on teenagers’ brains

August 4, 2015 anitanee

The results of a research project by Northwestern University, published in July 2015, suggest that music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain’s responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills.

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Musicians biological differences research paper

Learning music gives you biological advantages

April 22, 2015 anitanee

A study by Dr Nina Krauss and Dana L Strait at Northwestern University concludes that musician children and adults demonstrate biological distinctions in auditory processing relative to nonmusicians.

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