Music Helps To Create Smarter Children

Almost every day, neuroscientists are providing clear evidences that music has a positive effect on children's brain development. Modern brain imaging technologies such as MRI and PET brain scan allow scientists to see which part of our brain comes alive during certain type of activities and which parts are affected by different type of stimulus. Scientists can now bereave the brain in the process of development. And there is a common consensus that environment play a very significant influence on children brain development and their destiny. Throughout the early years of your child's life (as early as when he was in your body), his brain is irrevocably affected by his surroundings. The things he sees, hears, touches and experiences not only affect his general development but more importantly how his brain is wired. At birth, a child's brain is in a stage of constant growing and developing. Most of his hundred billion neurons are not yet connected into network. As he interacts with his parents and other care givers and explore the world through his senses, thousands of neuron connection known as synapses are formed. By the time he is 6 to 7 years old, trillions of such connection are created. Each single neuron in his brain may be connected to as many as fifteen thousand other neurons, forming an extremely complex network neuron pathways. If these synapses are used repeatedly in your child daily life, they are reinforced and become part of his brain's permanent circuitry. But if they are not used repeatedly of often enough, his will lose them completely. A high percentage of environment input is provided through the ears, And there are clear evidence that music plays a crucial role in the process of wiring your young child's brain. As your child is born and progresses through the years, music help to enhance his physiology, his intelligence and his behaviors. such effects are real and can be measured. Here are some of the finding on how music affect your child's brain and his development: - Music can calm or stimulate the movement and heart rate of a baby in the womb, - Premature infants who listen to classical music in their intensive care units gain more weight, leave the hospital earlier and have a better chance of survival. - Your children who receive regular music training show better motor skills, math ability and reading performance than hose who don't. - Secondary and high school students who sing or play musical instruments score up to 52 points higher on SAT tests than those who do not. - Pre-university students who listen to Mozart's Sonata for Two Piano in D Major tend to score higher on the spatial-temporal portion of IQ tests immediately afterward. Adult musicians' brain generally exhibit more brainwaves (measure with EEG) coherence than those or non-musicians - and even differ anatomically in cases when the musicians began their training before age seven. It is so amazing to know that music and rhythmic verbal sounds can have such a powerful effect of human mind and body. When you use music wisely on your child, it not only help to create a healthy and stimulating sound world for your family but it also has a very profound effect on your child's growth and development.