Music training in childhood might make our brain faster

A new study has shown that even a little musical training in early childhood has a lasting, positive effect on how the brain processes sound.

The recent studies made by the Northwestern University affirm that playing a musical instruments changes the fisionomy of the brain. And they tried to find out if that changes continued after the music training stops.

This study was published in The Journal of Neuroscience, they tested 44 adults, some of them had a musical training in their childhood (they started more or less at the age of 9) and some others did not.

They tested how the brain of these people responded to fast changing sounds.

The experiment consisted on measuring the brain activity while the participants listened to synthesized speech syllables.

The researches discovered that although they didn't have played an instrument fir ears, if the did from 4 to 14 years of trainig they had a fastest response to the speech sound ( more or less a millisecond faster than the ones who didn't have a musical training)

Maybe a millisecond is not that impressive, but when you take into account the great mass of processes that our neurons do, you realize that is not just a millisecond, it ccan make a great difference.

They found out too that the more years the study participants spent training, the faster they were.

So, just stop losing your time and become a musician!