The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
there are now dozens if not hundreds of quality peer-reviewed studies using a variety of technical approaches that show that when children especially children younger than eight learn to play an instrument and even better learn to play multiple instruments regardless of whether or not they learn to read music that it leads to greatly enhanced connectivity within their brain that persists into adulthood and that it facilitates other forms of neuroplasticity and learning
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children that learn how to play one to three instruments when they were a kid or that sang in a choir or a group or that we're taught to sing solo for that matter show up to 30 percent greater connectivity within this particular their brain Network that links the two hemispheres of the brain
In other words-- and I can't emphasize this enough. And again, I failed at music miserably. I'll tell you a story about that in a second. Getting kids to play an instrument-- it's very clear it improves their ability to learn all sorts of things for their entire life. It's just so, so important.
kids that grow up playing an instrument especially cooperatively with other people in a band you know duet or you know quartet you know a band um or orchestra or marching band um there's some very impressive data in terms of potential for additional neuroplasticity in fact the brainwide networks the the patterns of connectivity are much more Broad in kids that learned an instrument and played it cooperatively than um those that try and learn an instrument later in life although they're still advantages that
kids that grow up playing an instrument especially cooperatively with other people in a band you know duet or you know quartet you know a band um or orchestra or marching band um there's some very impressive data in terms of potential for additional neuroplasticity in fact the brainwide networks the the patterns of connectivity are much more Broad in kids that learned an instrument and played it cooperatively than um those that try and learn an instrument later in life although they're still advantages that