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Will hearing to music make you brighter? Will learning to play a instrument make your brain grow larger than normal?

Questions like these ones have been popping everywhere the place in the past few years, and not just in scientific journals either. In recent times the media has been fascinated by the research surrounding brain development and music, eagerly describing on the latest studies to the delight of the music-loving parents of youth children.Just all this information - and some misinformation also - has led to generalised confusion about the role of music and music training in the development of the human brain. The bottom line is this: whenever you are confused by all you read about music study and brain development, you are certainly not alone.

In part, this is due to the personal manner in which the phrase “the Mozart Effect” has been popularized by the media and kicked around about to describe any situation in which music has a positive effect on cognition or behavior.

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