Music has enormous benefits in the development of children. It allows new neuronal connections to be formed between the two hemispheres of the brain, thereby increasing learning capacity. In addition, it stimulates creativity, memory, sensitivity and imagination.
But not only this. Researchers at Northwestern University, United States, have conducted a study published in Journal of Neuroscience, whose results confirm that musical education in childhood improves brain capacity.
One of the benefits of childhood music education is the speed with which the brain is able to process speech. People who have received it as children have a greater capacity for brain response than those who did not receive it, which translates into a more efficient hearing system.
When analyzing the electrical activity in the auditory brainstem of 44 healthy adults, aged between 55 and 76, the scientists found that although none of them had played an instrument in almost 40 years, those who between 4 and 14 years had received musical training they had a faster response to sounds, on the order of one thousandth of a second faster than they had not received it.
A thousandth of a second is virtually no time, but for neural connections it is. It involves millions of active neurons. A capacity that adults have lost over the years.
As you see, lA musical education of children have great benefits in children, both short and long term. They do not necessarily have to teach music, but experiences in which children actively play with an instrument and interact with the sounds.
