{"id":780,"date":"2003-08-05T04:10:20","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"words-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"words and music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Want your children to remember their vocabulary  lists? Perhaps you should make them take music lessons. Music training  improves verbal memory in children, according to a study published in  the July issue of <em>Neuropsychology.<\/em> Agnes S. Chan, a psychologist at the  University of Hong Kong, and her colleagues studied 90 boys between the  ages of 6 and 15. Half belonged to their school&#8217;s orchestra and had  studied music for one to five years; the other half had no musical  training at all. The children were given verbal memory tests, to see how  many words they could recall from a list, as well as visual memory  tests, in which they had to recall images. Though no differences were  found among the two groups in recalling images, students with musical  training recalled significantly more words than the control group, and  retained more words after a 30-minute delay. The researchers think that  musical training stimulates the left side of the brain, aiding other  left-brain functions, such as verbal learning. Further study also  revealed that verbal memory improved with longer musical study. But  music-school dropouts shouldn&#8217;t feel too bad. Though the researchers  didn&#8217;t find any further improvement, the dropouts didn&#8217;t lose the  advantage they had previously acquired.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 8\/05\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want your children to remember their vocabulary lists? Perhaps you should make them take music lessons. Music training improves verbal memory in children, according to a study published in the July issue of Neuropsychology. Agnes S. Chan, a psychologist at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=780\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}