Music and the mind

Do you have problems with maths? Do you like music? If the answer is yes to both questions, you will be interested to know that, according to several recent experiments, musical training can help your brain understand maths better. Thought these findings are not conclusive, it is clear that both listening to and learning music have beneficial effects on our brain.

The findings of this research have physical base. Children are born with 100 billions unconnected or loosely connected neurons, or nerve cells. Each experience a child has, like seeing people smile or hearing them talk, helps the brain to link the cells.
Music may have an influence on the way the neurons connect, stimulating the development of spatial-temporal reasoning skills, which aid in understanding proportion, geometry and other mathematical and scientific concepts.
What did the reserch show? An experiment conducted on rats showed that those which had been expose to Mozart ran through a maze faster and made fewer mistakes than those which hadn't. Other experiments, done with pre-school children who were given keyboard lessons, showed how their spatial-temporal skills improved.
These findings were supported by a publication in the journal Nature, in May 1996. A group of students were taught music and played musical games involving rhythm and pitch. When compared with students who hadn't received specific music instruction, they not only had better reading skills, but also showed a significant improvement in their maths skills

Though we still don't know exactly how music affects our brains, it is certain that somehow music helps the shape our minds.



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Music and the mind talk about recent experiments that are interested in how the music can help our brain. They prove hat listening to and learning music have postive effects. The reason has a physical basis. They would like to study what it shows and for that they did some experiments with rats and pre-schools children. In all the experiments is that there is a good improvment they prove that music helps our brinds.