New research finds music lessons produce neural benefits in kids who don’t start formal training until high school. Many studies have emerged in recent years describing the cognitive, emotional, and ...

If the brain is a muscle, then learning to play an instrument and read music is the ultimate exercise. Two new studies from the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC show that as little as two years ...

Sign-up for Fall 2026 Applied Music Instruction is now open. All music majors are required to take a minimum of 6 units of applied music instruction to graduate; majors may enroll in 1-unit lessons ...

Children exposed to a multi-year program of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills ...

According to a new study, children with music training had significantly better verbal memory than their counterparts without such training. Plus, the longer the training, the better the verbal memory ...

Music instruction appears to accelerate brain development in young children, particularly in the areas of the brain that are responsible for processing sound, language development, speech perception ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, investigated the association between formal music instruction during childhood ...

Playing an instrument can be a rewarding hobby, but if finding the time and a teacher is a challenge, many apps can help get you started. By J. D. Biersdorfer You’re never too old to learn to play a ...

My 28-year-old severely autistic son Nat is a front man in a rock band. Yes, you read that right. And it's a good band, that sometimes is paid for gigs. Yet in Real Life Nat speaks with great ...

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