...
"… These studies show that early learning experiences determine which neurons will connect with other neurons
and which ones will die off. Connections between neurons (synaptic connections) are largely related to adult
intelligence. They increase at the fastest rate during the first six years of a human life. Music training is said to
develop synaptic connections that are related to abstract thought. …..
The right hemisphere of a human brain serves to process information in a spontaneous or intuitive way.
Why? Infants are, I think , free of all spiritual and social constraints, the direct embodiment
of their own spirits, manifesting harmony at the individual level. Due to the relation of
quality of music to Intelligence, which is also a source of pleasure by its own, the effect of
music on infants is self-evident.
"… These studies show that early learning experiences determine which neurons will connect with other neurons
and which ones will die off. Connections between neurons (synaptic connections) are largely related to adult
intelligence. They increase at the fastest rate during the first six years of a human life. Music training is said to
develop synaptic connections that are related to abstract thought. …..
The right hemisphere of a human brain serves to process information in a spontaneous or intuitive way.
http://www.menc.org/publication/articles/academic/hawaii.htm
http://www.menc.org/publication/articles/academic/growing.htm
"For example, the way in which a person responds to the art of music is a form of an intuitive process of
thinking. The left hemisphere of a human brain functions to process information in a linear or sequential way.
Learning subjects such as Math or English are prime examples of this process. After using a brain scanning
technique, scientists discovered that musicians had a 25% enlargement in the area of response in the right side
of the brain. This enlargement was greater for musicians who began studying music at young ages. New born
babies tend to use the right hemisphere before the left; they react to pitch and visual changes instantly before
reacting to counting or words. Therefore, babies are exposed to music and rhymes. ."
2. Music Increases Intelligence
http://www.tomleemusic.ca/main/academy.cfm?id=103
“Music stimulates the mind, encourages creativity and helps to lay a foundation for learning
that leads to higher intelligence and aptitude...
"Plato once said “...music is a more potent instrument than any other for education...” now scientists know
why. Music , they believe, trains the brain for higher forms of thinking After eight months of musical
thinking.
training, 3 year olds were expert puzzle masters, scoring 80% higher than their playmates did in spatial
intelligence-the ability to visualize the world accurately. This skill later translates into mathematica/conceptual
and engineering skills.”
3. Leadership and the Musical Mind
http://www.weforum.org/en/events/annualmeeting/Interactive%20Programme/
index.htm?id=16551
Daniel J. Levitin, "In search of the Musical Mind", reiterates:
" I believe the study of music is of central importance to cognitive science, because music is
the most complex of human activities, involving perception, memory, timing, object grouping,
attention, and – in the case of performance – expertice and complec coordination of motor
action. Conesequently, the scientific study of music hat the potentioal to answer fundamental
questions, about the nature of human thought and the relations among experience, mind,
genes......"
brain and genes.
In search of the musical Mind. By Daniel J. Levitin, Ph. D.
From Cerebrum: The Danan Forum on Brain Science..Vol w, Number 4, Fall 2000
http://www.dana.org/pdf/specialpublications/cerebrum_levitin.pdf