Music Increases Intelligence

Music Increases Intelligence.
If Johnny doesn't filch to the violin, don't fret. A unusual study challenges the widely held belief that music lessons can servant boost children's intelligence. "More than 80 percent of American adults think that music improves children's grades or intelligence," mull over author Samuel Mehr, a graduate schoolgirl in the School of Education at Harvard University, said in a university news release. "Even in the detailed community, there's a general belief that music is important for these extrinsic reasons - but there is very insignificant 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 come into instruction in either music or visual arts. "We wanted to examination the effects of the type of music education that actually happens in the truthful world, and we wanted to study the effect in young children, so we implemented a parent-child music enrichment program with preschoolers".