{"id":49,"date":"2009-05-21T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:41:41","slug":"music-and-the-brain-the-importance-of-early-musical-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/video\/interviews\/music-and-the-brain-the-importance-of-early-musical-training\/49\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Early Musical Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-49-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/13-oliver-sacks.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/13-oliver-sacks.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/13-oliver-sacks.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Oliver Sacks<\/strong>: And you\u2019ll find that even a few minutes of five finger exercises will make functional changes in the brain, so the brain\u2019s response to music in physiological terms is almost immediate although obviously it would take months or whatever to have anatomical changes. But a year of Suzuki training will produce physical changes in the brain, and there have been studies looking at the brains before and after a year of training. And so whatever gifts a\u00a0 person has or doesn\u2019t have, musical training seems to be very important, the more so if it\u2019s early.<\/p>\n<p>If music can so alter the brain, at least the musical parts of the brain, when people are young, one would wonder the role of music in education, and whether this enlargement and benefit can spread to other parts of the brain, whether it will facilitate reading, memory, concentration, focus, and there\u2019s quite a lot of evidence that this is the case, and therefore strong arguments for including music in education. But I stress this is something beyond the so-called Mozart effect. A little Mozart under the pillow, a teaspoon of Mozart, while it\u2019s very pleasant and it may introduce people to Mozart, in itself, that\u2019s not enough. 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