Newsweek, 1996, by Sharon Begley “At UC Irvine, Gordon Shaw suspected that all higher-order thinking is characterized by similar patterns of neuron firing. …So Shaw and Frances Rauscher gave 19 preschoolers piano or singing lessons. After eight months, the researchers found, the children “dramatically improved in spatial reasoning,” compared with children given no music lessons, as […]

Newsweek 2000, by Sharon Begley In this article, Ms. Begley wrote that researchers led by Dr. Gottfried Schlaug of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston compared the brains of 30 nonmusicians with the brains of 30 professional string and piano players. These researchers found that the corpus callosum, which can be described as a large […]

The following are excerpts from an article by Vadim Prokhorov, found in Parade Magazine dated 6/14/1998: “New scientific studies have shown that early musical training shapes children’s growing brains and boosts their learning power, aiding in the development of logic, abstract thinking, memory and creativity.” “The researchers—Dr. Gordon Shaw, a physicist at the University of California […]