Music fosters language acquisition

Description: Music fosters language acquisitionResearch Field: Cognition ResearchIf you foster your children’s musical training at an early age, you may also foster their intelligence. Even if they might not turn into wunderkinder, music improves the skills required for the acquisition of language, according to a recent study by the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig.The study explores the connection between musical training and skills in language processing. It found some astonishing results: children with musical training respond better and quicker to language. Although different areas of the brain are responsible for language and music processing, they seem to interact.The study, which focused on children from the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir in Leipzig, doubled as the doctoral thesis of Sebastian Jentschke, also an ardent music lover in his private life. The research will be continued at several schools in the autumn, when the new school year begins.Copyright: © Deutsche WellePublished at ScienceStage.com in cooperation with the Max Planck Society.Involved Institutes: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences