Learning musical instrument can help boost kids’ intelligence



London, Sept 11 (ANI): Encouraging your children to learn a guitar or piano can help boost their memory and intelligence, suggest researchers.

The research team from University of London’s Institute of Education has found that learning to play an instrument expand the left side of the brain, enhancing kids’ memory power by almost 20 per cent, reports Times Online.

The research was a part of the drive to encourage more children to take up a musical instrument.

It showed that music lessons increased pupils’ IQ by seven points, compared with 4.3 points for drama lessons.

Moreover, playing an instrument improves children’s behaviour.

Lead researcher Suasn Hallam insists that this is because working in small musical groups requires trust, respect and compromise. (ANI)

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1 Comment so far

  1. Kamaldeep on December 11th, 2009

    Thats interesting and very obvious that when listening to the music of any instrument can make you free from so many calamities then being a part of music will surely do something much better then that to you.

    Playing instrument actually introduces talent into the person and brings all his system in the rhythm he plays.

    So the research is true that playing instrument can make you smart because it is really effective to your brain.

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