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26th November 2018
12:44pm GMT

After six months, there was no difference between the groups' IQ, memory or attention span.
The kids in the group that took piano lessons, however, were better at distinguishing between different words than the others.
Their ability to hear the difference between words was correlated with their ability to hear musical pitch changes, the researchers said.
"Piano training thus improves children’s common sound processing, facilitating certain aspects of language development as much as, if not more than, reading instruction," they concluded.
"There’s evidence that early exposure to piano practice enhances the processing of sounds that extend not only from music, but also into language," said co-lead author John Gabrieli of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Explore more on these topics: