{"id":549,"date":"2014-01-13T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:52:45","slug":"taking-piano-lessons-improves-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/taking-piano-lessons-improves-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Piano Lessons Improves Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/girl-playing-piano-at-home-2022-03-09-02-18-51-utc-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Taking Piano Lessons Improves Your Brain by 88 Keys Music Academy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/girl-playing-piano-at-home-2022-03-09-02-18-51-utc-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/girl-playing-piano-at-home-2022-03-09-02-18-51-utc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/girl-playing-piano-at-home-2022-03-09-02-18-51-utc-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A recent study shows that taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/2015\/08\/21\/adult-piano-guitar-lessons\/\">music lessons<\/a> during childhood may physically change and\u00a0improve your brain.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Beijing Normal University in China found that starting lessons before age 7 is associated with greater volume in brain regions linked with self-awareness and hearing, compared with starting music lessons after that age. Early\u00a0music learning \u00a0can advance their cognitive skills and physically restructurizes the brain&#8217;s cortex (the outer layer of the brain).<\/p>\n<p>The study included young adult participants\u00a0between the ages of 19 and 21. They all started with formal training, but some started before age 7 and the others started after that age. Researchers found that those who started at an earlier age had a thicker cortex compared to those who started after age 7.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in McGill University also learned that musical training before age 7 is linked with more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/18\/music-lessons-brain-development-early-in-life-childhood_n_2687823.html?1383594878\" target=\"_hplink\">white matter in the corpus callosum part of the brain<\/a>, as well as better performance on visual sensorimotor synchronization tasks compared with people who started music training after age 7.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, researchers from Northwestern University who studied electrical activity of men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s auditory\u00a0brainstem\u00a0found that brain responses to speech are faster among older adults who took childhood music lessons &#8212; even if they haven&#8217;t\u00a0played an instrument for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References: Huffingtonpost.com.Taking Music Lessons as a Child Could Physically Change your Brain. [2013] 14 Nov. 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/14\/music-lessons-brain-child-physical-changes_n_4260917.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/14\/music-lessons-brain-child-physical-changes_n_4260917.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huffingtonpost.com.Childhood Music Lessons Could Benefit Your Brain Later On. [2014] 07 Nov 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/07\/music-lessons-brain-childhood-adult_n_4214288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/07\/music-lessons-brain-childhood-adult_n_4214288.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study shows that taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/2015\/08\/21\/adult-piano-guitar-lessons\/\">music lessons<\/a> during childhood may physically change and\u00a0improve your brain. Researchers from Beijing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88-keys-tips","category-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.88keysmusicacademy.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}