The Effect of Music on your Brain
Many students at the North Scott Junior High are taking classes that involve forms of music such as band, choir, and orchestra. North Scott is known to be a good school district, and we've got the grades to prove it. Being ranked one of the highest schools in the area, and having 147 students in band, 83 in orchestra, and 237 kids taking choir, it makes us wonder, is there any connection between these two things? It is known that music affects your mood, but how does music change your brain?
“One study showed that children who had three years or more musical instrument training performed better than those who didn’t…” (Cooper). This is important because it started other studies in what music helps you with and in what subjects it doesn’t. However, a later study’s conclusions shows in mathematics, “little experimental evidence has shown that such transfer occurs” (Forgeard, et al.). Finally, “musically trained children outperformed those without music training on a verbal memory test” (Forgeard, et al.). The significance of this is that if in 2010, “18,080,000 people played an instrument in the united states” and with the growing population, even more people will be in the future. (Statista.com).
With the growing population learning about and listening to different types of music, we can expect many different types of people and that all have potential to change the world for the better.
Many students at the North Scott Junior High are taking classes that involve forms of music such as band, choir, and orchestra. North Scott is known to be a good school district, and we've got the grades to prove it. Being ranked one of the highest schools in the area, and having 147 students in band, 83 in orchestra, and 237 kids taking choir, it makes us wonder, is there any connection between these two things? It is known that music affects your mood, but how does music change your brain?
“One study showed that children who had three years or more musical instrument training performed better than those who didn’t…” (Cooper). This is important because it started other studies in what music helps you with and in what subjects it doesn’t. However, a later study’s conclusions shows in mathematics, “little experimental evidence has shown that such transfer occurs” (Forgeard, et al.). Finally, “musically trained children outperformed those without music training on a verbal memory test” (Forgeard, et al.). The significance of this is that if in 2010, “18,080,000 people played an instrument in the united states” and with the growing population, even more people will be in the future. (Statista.com).
With the growing population learning about and listening to different types of music, we can expect many different types of people and that all have potential to change the world for the better.