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The findings, published today (20 September 2006) in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of musically-trained children respond to music in a different way to those of the untrained children, but also that the training improves their memory as well. After one year the musically trained children performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ.

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There have been other studies looking at the effect of music training on intelligence. Learning to play the keyboards or sing increased IQ by seven points. Training children’s sense of rhythm has had a positive effect on academic performance.