If you enjoyed (or suffered through) music lessons as a child, listen up!
Being trained in music before age 7 could hold major brain benefits, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The study suggested that children who practiced music at a young age tended to have more white matter in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is actually made up of nerve fibers, and is responsible for serving as a connector between the motor regions in the right side of the brain with those in the left side.
"Work from our laboratory has shown that early-trained musicians (training begun before the age of 7 years) outperform late-trained musicians (training begun after the age of 7 years) on auditory and visual sensorimotor synchronization tasks – even when matched for year of training and experience," wrote the study researchers, who were from Concordia University and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University.
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