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Music is best practiced from childhood

05.09.2012

Music lessons in childhood improve the perception and complex processing of sound signals in adulthood. This conclusion was led by a recent study by the Northwestern University (Northwestern University, Illinois).

The impact of music on the brain has been actively discussed by the scientific community over the past 10 years. Researchers at Northwestern University have studied for the first time what a few years of music lessons in childhood give a person. The researchers compared adults who had no musical education as children and who played music for one to five years. It turned out that in the latter, the brain perceives complex sounds better, allowing people to more clearly distinguish the main frequency of the sound signal, which is key in the perception of speech and music - it is this frequency that allows you to distinguish sounds from the surrounding noise.

Many children take group or private music lessons, but few continue music lessons after graduation. At the same time, most neurophysiological studies consider students of musical educational institutions or professional musicians as an object. This project was different in that adults who were involved in music in childhood, but who are not related to it now, were selected to participate in it. The scientists measured the electrical signals from the auditory nerves in response to eight complex sounds that varied in pitch. Because the brain's signal exactly reproduces the sound signal, the researchers were able to see which key elements of sound are perceived by the nervous system, and how the experience and abilities of different people affect this.

As expected, music training in childhood leads to a clearer perception and processing of sounds in adulthood. Interestingly, even just a few years of music lessons significantly affect this.

The scientists hope that the results of this study will help in the future to create effective and long-term training and rehabilitation programs based on auditory perception.

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