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Music of the hemispheres: playing music gives brains a boost

"Until recently, establishing cause and effect for music’s mental impact has been difficult. But long-term studies peering into brain structure and activity are now showing that musical training changes the brain in lasting ways."

Article, Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, August 2010. Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Phys Ed: Does Music Makes you Exercise Harder?

"it’s music’s dual ability to distract attention (a psychological effect) while simultaneously goosing the heart and the muscles (physiological impacts) that makes it so effective during everyday exercise."

Blog, Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times, August 2010. Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Music to my ears: enhanced speech perception through musical experience

" (...) insight into the ways in which musical experience can enhance the processing of both linguistic and paralinguistic cues paves the way for development of musical training therapies aimed at improving communication for persons with APD and autism spectrum disorders."

Article, Dylan Sheridan and Lisa Cunningham, Audiology Today, November - December 2009. Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Music Training and the Brain

"The findings indicate that musicians also perform better than non-musicians on tasks of auditory attention and on receiving and processing auditory information in challenging listening environments."

Article, Neuroscience Quarterly, Society for Neuroscience, Spring 2010. Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Tuning the brain

"Evidence suggests that musical training, especially from an early age, fine-tunes a person’s hearing not just for music but also for emotional aspects of speech."

Article, AAAS, ScienceMag, March 2009. Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Research finds brain link to words, music ability

"Words and music, such natural partners that it seems obvious they go together. Now science is confirming that those abilities are linked in the brain, a finding that might even lead to better stroke treatments. "

Article, Randolph E. Schmid, February 2010. Source: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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