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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #48652 Medium Music training
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* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Are smarter people drawn to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana foundation created a consortium of neuroscientists from seven universities to address those questions. On March 4, the group relist a report, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, available at dana.org. Some of the findings: An interest in performing arts helps develop sustained attention spans, which can improve other areas of cognition. Links exist between training in music and the ability to manipulate information in both shorterm and long-term memory. Music training also appears to improve kids' capacity for geometric representation, as well as the acquisition of reading skills. Acting classes lead to improved memory, via better language skills.

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