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Publication Date: 2006-Mar
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Music for Their Minds
Shore, Rebecca; Strasser, Janis
Young Children, v61 n2 p62-67 Mar 2006
Hearing causes brain cells (neurons) to connect and neural networks to form. Advanced brain-scan technology and neuroscience research reveal that when children participate in music, the brain "light[s] up like a Christmas tree" in many different areas (Parr, Radford, & Snyder 1998, cited in Isenberg & Jalongo 2001, 159). The growing neural networks eventually become the foundations upon which all other learning is based.
Descriptors: Music, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Hearing (Physiology), Music Education, Neurology, Young Children, Classical Music, Mathematics Skills, Intelligence Quotient
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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