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The Effect of Music on ChildrensBrain and
Cognitive Development
  • Gottfried Schlaug Ellen Winner
  • Dept. of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
    Center and Harvard Medical School
  • Dept. of Psychology, Boston College
  • and Harvard Graduate School of Education

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
2
3 Questions
  • Does music learning cause structural changes in
    childrens brains?
  • Does music learning lead to improvement in
  • childrens spatial thinking and in
    mathematics?
  • Is improvement in spatial and/or math reasoning
  • related to brain changes?

3
Musicians brains are different
4
Corpus Callosum
5
Your Brain on Music
6
Is it Nature, Nurture, or both? A longitudinal
study is the only way to find out.
  • We need to study children before they begin and
    while they are learning music.
  • We will compare groups of children learning music
    at varying levels of time commitment.

7
The Mozart Effect
  • Previous studies have shown that after listening
    to the music of Mozart, adults score higher on
    spatial tasks like this paper folding test.
  • However, this effect is
  • short lived.

8
But other studies have shown that music
training has positive, long-term effects on
childrens cognition.This 3-year study will
measure those effects in three ways annual
cognitive, math music testing journal of
activities annual non-invasive MRI scan
9
Wild claims have been made by the media but...
10
Object Assembly Test
  • ...it is true
  • that children who study music solve puzzles of
    this kind better than those who have not studied
    music.

11
Math
  • Based on a small number of studies, there is also
    some evidence that children who study music may
    improve in math.

12
Unanswered question
  • When children improve in
  • spatial reasoning and in math,
  • are these improvements related to
  • structural brain changes?
  • ?

13
Families who join our study agree to
  • Annual cognitive, math and music testing at their
    childs school, music school or at
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Annual non-invasive MRI scans at
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Keep a weekly record of childs musical
    activities or instrumental practice and/or other
    extra-curricular activities

14
What is an MRI?
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • MRI is non-invasive and completely safe.
  • There is no radiation whatsoever.
  • The MRI will take about 20-30 minutes to complete
    both structural and functional scanning.
  • While they are in the scanner, children will
    listen and respond to music in segments of
    approximately 5 minutes each.
  • When they leave, children will be given a CD with
    images of their brain.

15
Why Participate?
  • Find out how music learning affects
  • your childs development
  • Track your child brain growth and
  • cognitive development
  • Help gather scientific evidence to
  • support music in our schools
  • Receive pictures of your childs
  • developing brain
  • Receive a small stipend for your child
  • each time s/he is scanned
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