Learning to reproduce the tool is a cognitive desire, as well as creative
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Music Learning seems to increase reading skills in young children, improving their ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds that make up words.
Learn to play the tool for a long time To improve early reading abilitiesAnd also MathematicalBut how it was done, it is not clear, because the game on the instrument includes many skills.
“You need not only to read the notes that include the study of the new alphabet of the musical notation, you also need to listen to sounds and coordinate the movements of the hands and eyes,” says Maria Garcia-de-Soria At the University of Aberdin, Great Britain. This means that musical training can increase our common cognitive abilities, our memory or our skill of sounds, any of which can lead to the best reading skills.
To tease what is happening when it comes to reading, Garcia de Suria and her colleagues studied 57 children aged 5 to 9 years, with about the same number of boys and girls. About half studied the tool for at least a month and engaged at least half an hour a week, while the rest did not make musical extracurricular activities.
Researchers found that children Which studied the tool, surpassed the rest in the tests of phonological awareness. This is the ability to recognize and manipulate sounds or phonemes, which include words-for example, three letters that make up a “dog”. They also demonstrated the best reading skills.
The team controlled factors that can affect literacy, such as socio -economic status and general cognitive abilities, which indicates that this is not just a case when children with the best reading skills will be more likely to accept the tool.
In another part of the experiment, researchers used electroencephalography to recording children brain activities when they listened Gingerbread person fairy tale.
They found that the stronger neural activity in the language centers of the left hemisphere of the brain correlated with the best reading results for all children. Nevertheless, the musical group showed higher readers even with lower levels of this activity, which, according to the team, suggests that they have more developed, as an adult processing languageField
“Adults, as a rule, process music and speech more bilateral, and sometimes more in the right hemisphere. Children trained in musically, it seems, have a more adult tracking of speech, ”says Garcia-de-Sorius.
This is due to how people change how they read as their ability improves, and young children study phonemes, and then sound them. “As soon as we are adults, we look at words and know what they mean. We do not sound in their heads, ”says the team member Anastasia Klimovich-GrayAlso at the University of Aberdin.
The phonological awareness is a step for learning reading, so it makes sense that musical training increases literacy by increasing sensitivity to phonology, says Klimovich-Gray. But this is not necessarily a one-way street, says Garcia-de-sorius. “Music increases reading, but reading can also increase the method of playing music.”
By proved that these skills increase each other, can help children who consider the reader difficult, says Klimovich-Gray. “If someone fights phonology at the beginning of life, maybe before he has dyslexia, a musical training course, along with preparation for phonetics, can work as a booster.”
“The conclusion that musical training clarifies the phonological processes of coding of the left hemisphere is consistent with wider literature,” he says Alice Mado Urabe At the University of Milano-Bikos in Italy. However, musical training can also lead to Specialization in the right hemisphere of the brainAccording to her, contributing to a faster reading.
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