Music

[Jean Berko Gleason]

Dear Aliyah

Ellen Winner at Boston College and her colleagues at Project Zero at 
Harvard have conducted quite a lot of research on the kinds of questions 
you raise.  See, e.g.,

http://www2.bc.edu/~winner/current_music.html

cheers,

jean

Jean Berko Gleason



Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote:
> Dear infochildes,
>
> Does anyone know of "good" scientific evidence that learning music at  
> all or early has a positive impact on children's cognitive  
> development, concentration, memory, attention to others etc... and on  
> school results (reading as well as maths, languages of course...) and  
> even higher education? I'd like to help a program which is trying to  
> bring music into schools in "under-privileged" areas (called ZEP in  
> France)  but I'm not a specialist of that field and can only talk  
> about my experience and intuitions... In France, music is very often  
> only accessible to upper-middle class families. Any articles,  
> websites... on the matter would really help.
>
> My best,
>
> Aliyah MORGENSTERN
>
> >
>   

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