What Can Classical Music do for You?
From Web MD : Sept. 24, 2007 — Learning music may help children’s communication skills more than studying phonics [emphasis added], according to a new study. The study shows musical training enhances the same processing skills in the brain and Read More …
A study by Natalia Kleinhans, Elizabeth Aylward, and Todd Richards shows that people with autism, Asperger’s, and PDD have brains that are wired differently. Eight individuals with autism, nine with Asperger’s, and two with PDD were shown series of pictures Read More …
From a study by P. Heaton, B. Hermelin, and L. Pring: Children with autistic spectrum disorders typically show impairments in processing affective information within social and interpersonal domains. It has yet to be established whether such difficulties persist in the Read More …
What does the Los Angeles Unified School District know that we don’t? Only one thing. They sent out a survey [pdf file] of the arts in the schools. “‘Do you think that arts education is of value to all students?’ Read More …
A fall 2005 survey of 1,045 principals by the U.S. Department of Education showed that only 3.44% believed that music had no effect on academic support. In fact, the statistics are even more revealing : Extent that music room(s) support Read More …
Some people are born without the corpus callosum, a structure residing between the two halves of the brain that facilitates communication between them. This is called “Agenesis of the corpus callosum” (AgCC) and is extremely rare but fairly well-studied. Older Read More …
I’ve often wondered, with the research that’s out there, why every parent in the world isn’t encouraging their children to take music or art lessons. I see the research on the news several times a month and yet somehow people Read More …
A study by Christine Phillips published by the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University concludes that classical music provides increased focus and efficiency on computer-based tasks (in this case, ranking items in order of importance for survival Read More …
Kat Rice of Veribatim has convinced me of the value of an Internet presence and social networking, so I’ve been busy. Of course, for me the Internet always meant email, ftp, and usenet–so social networking, blogging, and such were all Read More …
