Musical training helps language processing, studies show
Stanford Report, November 15, 2005
LISA TREI
"In what will be music to the ears of arts advocates, researchers for the first time have shown that mastering a musical instrument improves the way the human brain processes parts of spoken language. The findings could bolster efforts to make music as much a part of elementary school education as reading and mathematics" [...]
Saper suonare uno strumento, avere sensibilità musicale sono attività connesse a qualche tipo di abilità linguistica? Lo studio della musica migliora le nostre performance linguistiche?
In questo articolo di Lisa Trei illustra i risultati di alcune ricerche condotte all'università di Stanford, da cui emerge l'immensa plasticità del cervello rispetto all'apprendimento musicale (e dunque anche al miglioramento delle prestazioni linguistiche affini), e la differenza nella percezione di alcune differenze linguistiche tra soggetti "non-musicisti" e "musicisti"...
LISA TREI
"In what will be music to the ears of arts advocates, researchers for the first time have shown that mastering a musical instrument improves the way the human brain processes parts of spoken language. The findings could bolster efforts to make music as much a part of elementary school education as reading and mathematics" [...]
Saper suonare uno strumento, avere sensibilità musicale sono attività connesse a qualche tipo di abilità linguistica? Lo studio della musica migliora le nostre performance linguistiche?
In questo articolo di Lisa Trei illustra i risultati di alcune ricerche condotte all'università di Stanford, da cui emerge l'immensa plasticità del cervello rispetto all'apprendimento musicale (e dunque anche al miglioramento delle prestazioni linguistiche affini), e la differenza nella percezione di alcune differenze linguistiche tra soggetti "non-musicisti" e "musicisti"...
posted by Isabella Chiari at
1:48 PM
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There is also interesting research on how musical training can directly support the acquisition of reading. When I'm not in school studying linguistics, I work at a company that writes software for assessing the reading ability of young students. We are beginning to take note of research in this direction, with an eye especially to teaching reading to non-English speaking children. Per darti un esempio:
"We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old children. Music skills were found to correlate significantly with both phonological awareness and reading development."
Sima H. Anvari, Laurel J. TrainorCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Jennifer Woodside and Betty Ann Levy
"Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children"
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume 83, Issue 2 , October 2002, Pages 111-130
Pare quasi incredibile, ma i dati sono quel che sono...
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Anonymous, At
8:15 AM
It doesn't seem too incredible when we compare some linguistic tasks (regarding prosodic aspects, emotional and ironic connotations and many other aspects)with musical perception skills from a neurological point of view. Phonetic and prosodic aspects are predictably similar to those required in music perception, maily because they are ear-governed tasks.
I wonder about the role of ear-training in different stages of development and I am even more suprized about reading skills. What kinds of tasks were used to compare performances in the research you mention? Is it more related to single unit's perception or to lexical recognition? Does this change with age?
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Alphabit, At
12:01 PM
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