by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Some ideas and evidence of deep links between the two. Some of the attributes of music are particularly memorable and can be used to assist learning. Music and language are both important in helping humans form large social groups, and one can argue that they...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Music and Lyrics: How the brain splits songs From the fMRI scans the team worked out that one particular part of the brain - the superior temporal sulcus - was responding to the songs. In the middle of the STS, the lyrics and tune were being processed as a single...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language, Music In School |
Music (and Math) as Language A great thought provoking quote: "One beauty of music is that it presents our ears with a perfect symbiosis of language and mathematics. It is math that performs like language, in the same way that light behaves as both particle and...
by Chris Salter | Apr 17, 2010 | Early Learners |
New research shows babies are born to dance Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech. The findings, based on the study of infants aged between five months and two years old, suggest that...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Early Learners |
Music tuition can help children improve reading skills Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (16 March 2009) -- Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Language of music really is universal, study finds Published: Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 11:32 in Psychology & Sociology Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western...