By Doug Levine It’s a new year and with it comes a slew of awards shows. Now is it just me or are they doling out more and more trophies and plaques these days? This month alone brings four major awards, mostly for film and television. Of course, the Grammy Awards is still “music’s biggest […]
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Musical Brain Boost
By Eric Felten A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology has found that children who take up a musical instrument develop better language skills. Which raises the question: Why does music build cognitive power? The researchers have a theory: “Playing music requires continued monitoring of meaningful chunks of information… these chunks entail clusters of […]