This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can develop auditory and working memory skills. Auditory memory helps us to remember things we have heard, retrieve those memories when we need to and working memory helps us temporarily remember and manage our memories throughout the day.
These videos are designed to focus on a single area of learning that music learning can enhance. We want to help parents, students and staff to better understand the impacts of music learning on brain development, so share these short videos through your social media feeds and emails.
Citations
Patscheke, H., Degé, F., & Schwarzer, G. (2016). The effects of training in music and phonological skills on phonological awareness in 4- to 6-year-old children of immigrant families. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1647.
Slevc, L. R., & Okada, B. M. (2015). Processing structure in language and music: A case for shared reliance on cognitive control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(3), 637–652.
Limb, C. J., & Braun, A. R. (2008). Neural substrates of spontaneous musical performance: An fMRI study of jazz improvisation. PLOS ONE, 3(2), e1679.
Schellenberg, E. G. (2004). Music lessons enhance IQ. Psychological Science, 15(8), 511–514.