Sentences with phrase «musical training»

It took many years of musical training for me to realize just how bad my singing voice is.

Other studies have shown possible links between musical training in early childhood and structural changes in the brain, but researchers contend this study will provide more insights.

The ability to understand speech in a noisy environment has also been shown to improve with musical training.

Because speech and music share similar brain networks, it's possible that musical training thus could also improve linguistic abilities.

And for comparison they intend to study individuals without perfect pitch but with equivalent musical training.

Brief musical training can increase the blood flow in the left hemisphere of our brain.

The research shows that most people, regardless of musical training, are quite good at two of the three elements: timing and note memory.

Previously, researchers demonstrated that children with musical training were better at language than children who did not learn to play an instrument.

Successful resumes in this field make display of musical training at a conservatoire.

This discovery supports the scientists» previous research making use of musical training for helping to rehabilitate motor movement in the upper bodies of stroke survivors.

And while there's been much debate over whether or not women have bigger corpora callosa, there's evidence that musicians may have the edge: Researchers have found that starting musical training before the age of 7 can boost connectivity in this brain area.

On top of computer games and physical exercise, I tried three other methods supported by peer - reviewed studies: • Fascinated by studies showing musical training enhances IQ in children, I decided to pursue a lifelong dream — learning to play the Renaissance - style lute.

There have been many reports of associations between musical training in childhood and later nonmusical cognitive outcomes.

In other research projects, Burdette and colleagues at the School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina - Greensboro have found that trained music conductors are likely to be better at combining and using auditory and visual clues than people without musical training; that activity in brain areas associated with vision decreases during tasks that involve listening; and that different levels of complexity in music can have different effects on functional brain connectivity.

Scans of the brains of child musicians before and after musical training have yielded compelling evidence that proficiency and skill relies on hard graft, not innate genius.

People with early musical training are much more likely than others to have perfect pitch, but the skill also runs in families (SN: 11/16/96, p. 316).

Likewise, if you force musical training, your child likely won't embrace it.

Musical training shapes structural brain development.

Gaab's interest in working at the intersection of basic, clinical, and education research was piqued when she was doing her doctoral work in neuroscience, studying how auditory or musical training affects the brain.

The researchers found 93 percent of the STEM graduates reported musical training at some point in their lives, as compared to only 34 percent of average adults, as reported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

«We were interested to know whether intense environmental demands such as musical training at an early age influenced actual brain growth and development,» Gottfried Schlaug, the lead researcher says.

Musical training seems to be important.

From now on, the great unwashed masses can evolve their own compositions — no composers, songwriters or musical training required.

«Future research should address whether rehabilitation approaches that include musical training can benefit patients with psychosis.»

Therefore we can assume that musical training results in a rapid change in the cognitive mechansims utilised for music perception and these shared mechanisms are usually employed for language.»

Amy explained: «It was fascinating to see that the similarities in blood flow signatures could be brought about after just half an hour of simple musical training.»

The findings, which involved hundreds of kids participating in musical training programs in Chicago and Los Angeles public schools, highlight the role learning music can have on the brains of youth in impoverished areas, according to presenter Nina Kraus, PhD, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University.

«Musical training offsets some academic achievement gaps, research says.»

Kraus's lab research has concluded that musical training appears to enhance the way children's nervous systems process sounds in a busy environment, such as a classroom or a playground.

«Building the Band» (3:06) is a promotional making - of short covering some of the same ground as the first piece above regarding the cast's musical training by executive producer / music consultant / «Sopranos» alum / E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt.

«We had more activation in areas of the brain I often call the «CEO regions»» — the frontal regions associated with executive function — «in the children who had musical training compared to others,» says Gaab.

Many teachers shy away from including music in their classrooms because they presume they need musical training to use music as a teaching tool.

What we should all remember, though, is that however we deliver musical education to children, strong musical training in schools reaps enormous benefits for all pupils, both within the curriculum and more widely.

Henley also recognised that there was both an uneven playing field in the way in which funds had been distributed and that the quality of teaching whilst overall was good, did have some areas in need of better musical training, particularly for primary classroom teachers.

She began rigorous musical training with some of the most prestigious instructors in the world; at one point waking up at 4 a.m. every weekend to drive from New York to Wesleyan for master classes with a Carnatic music professor, returning by 10 a.m. to be home when her daughter awoke.

After extensive musical training, Takada became a composer at Human Entertainment at the start of the PlayStation era.

A website for The Perlman Music Program to showcase their unparalleled musical training for young players of special talent

Though she never received formal musical training, Jones transformed her interest in music and her engagement with history and theory into an audio - visual practice.

Like learning a new language, learning how to play an instrument has a proven impact on brain development, showing that «learning to play a musical instrument not only increases grey matter volume in various brain regions, but can also strengthen the long - range connections between them» and that» musical training also enhances verbal memory, spatial reasoning, and literacy skills».

«This changes everything, because now we know to look both in the brainstem and in the cortex for effects related to enhanced hearing, due to musical training for instance, or for effects related to impaired hearing, as in aging, or some disorders.»

Gaab says, «He also encouraged me to think outside the box and let me follow research ideas like the idea of imaging 5 - year - olds — which, back in 2004, nobody thought would be possible — or looking at the connection between musical training and language processing,» Gaab says.

Musical training at an early age may lead to the increased growth of certain brain regions, according to a new study presented Friday at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Philadelphia.

Musical training enhances language skills, and language training probably enhances the neural processing of music in the same way.

Kraus surveyed 44 adults aged 55 to 76 and found that four or more years of musical training in childhood was linked to faster neural responses to speech, even for the older adults who had not picked up an instrument for more than 40 years.