Music lessons can enhance children’s memory, reasoning and planning abilities, leading to improved academic performance, a study has found.
Visual arts lessons also significantly improve children’s visual and spatial memory, researchers said.
“Despite indications that music has beneficial effects on cognition, music is disappearing from general education curricula,” said Artur Jaschke, from VU University of Amsterdam in Netherlands.
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience , the study found that children who received music lessons had significant cognitive improvements compared to all other children in the study.
