Playing Music Makes You Smart

Playing Music Makes You Smart

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Scientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain and sharpen hearing for all kinds of sounds, including speech.

"Experience with music appears to help with many other things in life, potentially transferring to activities like reading or picking up nuances in tones of voices or hearing sounds in a noisy classroom better," researcher Nina Kraus, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University, told LiveScience.

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Now I like to hear this, since I am a big Music fan and I listen to all sorts of Music - but I do not play any instrument (if you do not count turntables). And it is interesting to know, that Music engages higher level functions in the cortex that actually tune the brainstem.

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