Music eases customs, it is known well. But one speaks less the profits. to play an instrument! Several scientific studies were about the profits of the training of the ranges thus for the memory and the cognitive capacities. Small tower of agreements health horizon.

You practice sport, you read. but play yourselves music? Yet, it is beneficial for the brain, since the first years of life.

More of memory

First kindness of music: it improves the memory! To condition: to practice it and not only to listen to it. It is the conclusion of Chinese researchers, that followed the pupils who took courses of piano. They showed that they had a much better score to the cognitive tests. In the detail, their verbal memory was more efficient, they learned the words more easily and kept some more. For the researchers, the training of music would provoke a reorganization of the left temporal lobe of the brain, that would improve the intellectual performances. The conclusion: the children should play music since the kindergarten, to learn reading better in primary!

More intelligent!

This profit seems well to get used to the profit of the whole brain: the American researchers have them settled to offer some courses to children in primary: music, for the some, theater for the other. or nothing for the last (to make a group controls). And they observed that the children who had benefitted from piano courses. have a more elevated intelligence quotient! It seemed correlated directly to the time passed to play the instrument. On average, the children won a sixth of points of IQ per month of training. At the end of 6 years, it represents 7,5 points of IQ! History doesn’t say if it functions with other instruments that the piano.

The emotion in music

But history doesn’t stop there. Other researchers studied the same groups of children and their capacity to discern the emotions in words. They showed logically that the children who had made the theater had very good scores in monitoring and the perception of the intonations in words. But most surprising was that the children who had studied music nearly had the same scores! What means that while developing their musical ear, the children become more sensitive to the tone of the voice and to its variations. A real very useful emotional intelligence in life in society.

Thus, it is clear that the training of music is well beneficial for the cognitive capacities beyond the musical sphere. And a priori, these virtues can occur to all age. Don’t hesitate then to take out again your old guitar, a recorder or take courses of piano.

Not only you will become an aware melomaniac, but you will sharpen your intelligence and your sensitivity!