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Originally Posted by Robert Rowe Recent studies have suggested playing a musical instrument can result in a student achieving better / higher grades in other studies, as well. Can this be a result of the discipline necessary to follow a regimented practice schedule, and the aspect of effort equals results?
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Q. Does music actually seem to help raise people's I. Q.?
A. There have been many different studies, and probably a hundred different ways to measure intelligence. We know certain music brings us to greater attentiveness, allowing for better focus and concentration. Studies show that playing music early in life helps build the neural pathways that allow language, memory, and spatial development to take place. We know that stimulating linguistic rhymes, dances, movement, and play in the early years are essential to the foundation of bringing the emotions, mind, and body together. Music can be effective in study and assist in concentration. A popular study into the study showed students who listened to Mozart prior to testing scored higher marks in an intelligence test, and was published in Nature Magazine in 1993. The study by Rauscher, Shaw and Ky, is entitled " Music and Spatial Task Performance."
(See The Mozart Effect, pages 28, 303, 305-306.)
http://www.mozarteffect.com/learn/read.html