Learning music helps the brain child Adult

 Learning music helps the brain child Adult

The music creates a neuroplasticity that is maintained over time

Angeles Lopez | Madrid

What he has served so much effort if you have then left school music? Where they were the hours devoted to music theory? Lost time? These and many other questions they have raised the many parents and children when they tried in vain that their offspring learn to play an instrument. For them, and for itself finally ended between making a living musical notes, they are directed the results of a study that said practicing music in childhood results in improved brain function in adults.

Although there are many studies that have looked at how music affects the brain and body, the study now present researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (USA), focuses more on analyzing what happens after children stop playing a musical instrument if they have done so only for a few years.

For if OEN Learning years are thrown overboard once the music studio is abandoned, electrical signals from the brain stem 45 Adults in response to eight complex sounds with different shades were measured. These brain signals son a faithful representation of the audio signal, de Este · allowing researchers to analyze the elements of sound son captured by the nervous system and know whether the child Weak strong in each participating with many diverse talents.

Among the study participants, the results published in the journal Child 'Journal of Neuroscience', Esteban characters sin musical training, others had studies ranging from one to five years and who had studied music Other Six about 11 years. They all started playing nine years and his age at the time of the study ranged from 18 to 31 years.

Those sin compared with musical training, participants who had studied for one to five years of music had better brain responses to complex sounds Front. These people were more effective paragraph extract the fundamental frequency of the sound signal, that is, the lowest frequency in the sound that is key to the perception of music and speech. "This ability allows them to recognize sounds in complex and noisy environment, it is also important for memory para spoken and Expression," a ELMUNDO.es Nina Kraus, professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Communication Sciences at Northwestern University esta author and director of the study.

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For this research, it is clear that "the way in which you hear today is dictated by the experiences with sound you've had today. These new results are a clear example of this."

These results together with those obtained in previous studies by these researchers would note “benefits ranging from better auditory perception, executive function greater and more effective use of communication tools. All this suggests that musical training during development produces effects positive and long-term in the adult brain " , says the study.

"We hope these data, together with previous research discovered, and applied in educational strategies. I think it is essential that music is a subject in school," Kraus says.