Reposted by Kelly Whiteford
music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception
big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope".
music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !
nature.com
Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications
Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...