时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


英语课

 a new Canadian study shows young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical peers.


Parents who spend time and money to teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study shows young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical peers.
The study, published in the online edition of the journal Brain, showed that after one year of musical training, children performed better in a memory test than those who did not take music classes.
"(The research) tells us that if you take music lessons your brain is getting wired up differently than if you don't take music lessons," Laurel Trainor, professor of psychology 1, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, said.
"This is the first study to show that brain responses in young, musically trained and untrained children change differently over the course of a year," said Trainor .
Over a year they took four measurements in two groups of children aged 2 between four and six -- those taking music lessons and those taking no musical training outside school -- and found developmental changes over periods as short as four months.
The children completed a music test in which they were asked to discriminate 3 between harmonies, rhythms and melodies, and a memory test in which they had to listen to a series of numbers, remember them and repeat them back.
Trainor said while previous studies have shown that older children given music lessons had greater improvements in IQ scores than children given drama lessons, this is the first study to identify these effects in brain-based measurements in young children.
She said it was not that surprising that children studying music improved in musical listening skills more than children not studying music.
"On the other hand, it is very interesting that the children taking music lessons improved more on general memory skills that are correlated with nonmusical abilities such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ," she said.
那些花钱花时间让孩子学音乐的家长们可以放心了,加拿大的一项最新研究表明,上过音乐课的儿童比那些没上过音乐课的同龄儿童记忆力要好。
这项研究结果在《大脑》杂志的网站上发表,研究发现,上过一年音乐课的儿童在一项记忆力测试中的表现比没有上过音乐课的儿童好。
安大略省汉密尔顿市麦克马斯特大学研究心理学、神经系统科学和行为学的劳雷尔·特芮娜教授说:"这项研究告诉我们,是否上音乐课会对大脑的发育产生不同影响。"
特芮娜说:"这项研究首次发现,受过音乐训练的儿童和未受过音乐训练的儿童的大脑反应在一年内发生了不同的变化。
在一年的时间里,研究人员对两组4至6岁的儿童进行了四项测定,其中一组是在课外时间上音乐课的儿童,另一组是未上音乐课的儿童,研究发现,在短短的四个月内,这两组儿童的大脑发育都有所不同。
参加此项研究的儿童接受了一项音乐测试和一项记忆力测试。在音乐测试中,研究人员要求这些儿童对和声、节奏和旋律进行鉴别;而在记忆力测试中,他们需要听一系列的数字,将它们记住,然后再把它们复述出来。
特芮娜教授说,此前已有研究表明,在年龄稍大的儿童中,上过音乐课的儿童智商平均分比上过戏剧课的儿童进步得快。而此项最新研究首次对幼童进行了智商测试。
她说,"学习音乐儿童的音乐视听能力上比未学音乐的儿童强,这并不奇怪。"
"但从另一方面看,十分有趣的是,学习音乐的儿童在一般性记忆力等非音乐技能方面的提高,如读写能力、语言记忆、视觉空间分析、数学、智商,比未学习音乐的儿童大。"

n.心理,心理学,心理状态
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
v.区别,辨别,区分;有区别地对待
  • You must learn to discriminate between facts and opinions.你必须学会把事实和看法区分出来。
  • They can discriminate hundreds of colours.他们能分辨上百种颜色。
标签: 音乐
学英语单词
act of mercy
Adenophora verticillata
adm.
agammaglobulinemics
aggregative response
All-Ordinaries Index
Amchitka Island
amount of the original contribution
anr-pc
anterior radiocarpal ligaments
arrabbiata
arsenic-fast
auto increment addressing mode
Bacillus satellitus
bacterial speck
Belemnopteris
bic
blumpken
breaking test for chain cable
Brewster window
Canada Day
caudal medullary vestige
cecchettis
chenopodium glaucums
Chuvanayskiye Gor'y
classification of income
comb dresser
convergioscope
cooled shroud
cropping management factor
crucible holder
cruset
dense-graded mix
descending development method
difezil
diffusion of impurities
digital increment plotter
dilute medium
down sb's way
efferent limb block
fourth normal form
foveate
freak-out
friscoes
ground points
hartenberger
hartzog
have a sweet tooth
Hedyotis coreana
heterogeneous multiplexing
hysterophyte
installation risk
instruction classification
integrating ahead
Japanese rice ball
kehon odori (japan)
Kellyana
keyword density
king philip
lead-cadmium elimination roast
leaf cycle
liljeros
line-intercept
liquid blasting
lovelocked
mail bag
materfamiliases
milk ring test
monomorium minimums
mother's
multiple ultrasonic transducer combination
Newcomb theory
noncytoplasmic
nucleothymic acid
obtrectation
one-way controlled transmission
pan-fired
Panofsky, Erwin
panophthalmitis
Pirthipur
plagiorchis
playgames
Pontet-Canet
preselected trajectory
quilliam
resource sharing control
resuspensions
road pizza
roamings
Sabinas Hidalgo
scullery basin
shuttingdown
smsas-s
Tagore
test equipment tool
thin achromatic doublet
tooth plane
ursus thibetanus formosanus
vehicle repair depot
Victor Charlie
weak absorption