Music increases intelligence

Music increases intelligence.
If Johnny doesn't opt for to the violin, don't fret. A remodelled study challenges the widely held belief that music lessons can aid boost children's intelligence. "More than 80 percent of American adults think that music improves children's grades or intelligence," look author Samuel Mehr, a graduate pupil in the School of Education at Harvard University, said in a university news release extreme. "Even in the orderly community, there's a general belief that music is important for these extrinsic reasons - but there is very minute evidence supporting the idea that music classes enhance children's mental development".

In this study, Mehr and his colleagues randomly assigned 4-year-old children to obtain instruction in either music or visual arts any aurvedic product for fistula. "We wanted to investigation the effects of the type of music education that actually happens in the official world, and we wanted to study the effect in young children, so we implemented a parent-child music enrichment program with preschoolers".