Playing the piano can improve children's ability to distinguish voice July 4, 2018 Source: Xinhua News Agency Author: Zhou Zhou A new study conducted by Chinese and American researchers shows that playing the piano helps to improve the child's ability to discern speech and identify words, but there is no evidence to improve the child's overall cognitive ability. The study was published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Robert De Simon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's McGovern Institute for Brain Science, and the National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China. Researchers such as the cloud completed it together. The researchers recruited 74 Chinese-speaking four- to five-year-old children in Beijing and divided them into three groups. The first group received three 45-minute piano trainings each week, and the other group received the same time and frequency of reading training. The third group did not intervene. Six months later, the researchers tested children's ability to distinguish vowels, consonants, and tones. The results show that when two words with only one consonant are distinguished, the children in the piano class are significantly better than the children in the reading class; when the two words with different vowels are distinguished, the piano lessons and reading are performed. Both groups of children in the class were better than those who did not. In addition, EEG monitoring of brain activity in these children showed that children in the piano group were more responsive to different tones in Chinese than in other groups. Researchers believe that piano training can make children more sensitive to the differences in tones in music, thus making children more capable of discerning speech. But the study also showed that tests such as IQ, attention and memory did not show any differences between the three groups of children, and there was no evidence that piano lessons improved the overall cognitive ability of children. We are a professional Chinese manufacturer of Purgative herb Extract; we supply various products of Relaxing Bowels Plant Extract, and can providing product images and basic parameters with each Relaxing Bowels Plant Extract, Plant Purgative Material and Plant Aperients. Look forward to your cooperation! Vegetable Fruit Enzyme Powder,Purgative Material,Senna Leaf Extract,Louts Leaf Extract,Semen Cassiae Extract Xi'an Quanao Biotech Co., Ltd. , https://www.quanaobio.com
Playing the piano can improve children's ability to distinguish voice