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Music Training Enhances Children’s Verbal Intelligence
Miller-McCune: A just published study from Canada suggests early music education stimulates a child’s brain, leading to improved performance in an entirely different arena – verbal intelligence. “These results are dramatic not only because they clearly connect cognitive improvement to musical training, but also because the improvements in language and attention are found in completely different domains than the one used for training,” said York University psychologist Ellen Bialystok, one of the paper’s co-authors. “This has enormous implications for development and education.” Read the full story: Miller-McCune
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2011 Minnesota Psychological Association President’s Conference
Theme: Becoming an Empirically Validated Psychotherapist: The Effective Use of Outcome Measures Dates: November 11, 2011 Location: Metropolitan State University, St. Paul Campus For more information visit: https://m360.mnpsych.org/event.aspx?eventID=32428&instance=0
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Kentucky Psychological Association Annual Convention
Theme: Core Competencies in Psychology for the 21st Century Dates: November 10-12, 2011 Location: Lexington, KY For more information visit: http://kpa.org/displayconvention.cfm
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
Wired: The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Bohr’s quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure. A new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, and led by Jason Moser at Michigan State University, expands on this important concept. The question at the heart of the paper is simple: Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? After all, everybody screws up. The important part is what happens next.
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2012 Missouri Psychological Association Convention
Dates: March 23-24, 2012 Location: Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, 62112 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112 For more information visit: http://www.mopsych.org/
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Music-based program helps children develop verbal intelligence: Study
Toronto Sun: Preschool children learning to analyze information and solve problems using language-based reasoning thrive when taught using music, a new Canadian study has found. In the study, 48 children between the ages of four and six took part in computer-based, cognitive training programs that were projected onto a classroom wall. The lessons were delivered by colourful, animated cartoon characters. The children were divided into two groups: One received music-based training while the second group was given visual arts training. Both groups received two hour-long training sessions a day for four weeks, led by instructors from The Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
