Everyone loves music. But there are also many benefits of learning to play an instrument. Give the lifelong gift of music to ...

An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

Didn't learn a musical instrument? It may not be too late to benefit. A new study suggests that learning an instrument in ...

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Older adults who kept practising a musical instrument or learnt a new instrument even after 70 preserved memory better than ...

Some of us find it challenging to translate written musical notations into auditory signals and/or motor programming. Some cannot tell one tone apart from another. Some struggle with keeping up with ...

Neuroscience has found a clear relationship between music and language acquisition. Put simply, learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read. Music processing and ...

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The Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School built a musical learning space for kids with autism and other students with a grant from String Theory Schools. Adam Kaddai, a kindergarten student at ...