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

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.

Learning music gives you biological advantages

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.