Researchers have shown that music plays an imperative part in school education such as in reading and mathematics. Studies also show that learning a musical instrument can help improve the a child’s communication abilities. They demonstrated that people exposed to music can easily identify the small differences in every word syllable. Researchers also found out that musical trainings can help the brain to work well in identifying sound differences which is very helpful in language processing.
Experts said that the human brain can be considered plastic, in which can be trained and is adaptable. They found out that formal musical training can improve one’s perceptions of sounds and changes how the brain works on its language components. Musical training can help people pick up sound differences within the syllables and increase their verbal memory. Sound and tone changes are normally used in speech which may affect one’s phonetic skills that are necessary for both reading and expressive communication.
In a recent experiment, the participants were made listen to pairs of syllable, which are similar to each other. Musicians were able to outperform the non-musicians by recognizing the rapid changes quicker and more accurate. The second experiment involves the use of a magnetic resonance imaging to show the changes of blood oxygenation in the brain. Participants were made to listen to three-tone sequences and they need to reproduce the tones by pressing some buttons. Again, musicians performed better with the second test than non-musicians. These constitute further proof that musical training, such as violin lessons, could have a positive effect on a person’s language abilities.
Through these studies, scientists are hoping to find a solution to cure learning disabilities, dyslexia and other disabilities that are related to a child’s brain development.
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