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Musical training appears to tune up the brain's ability to remember words too.
These findings were reported in the journal Nature. The study involved 30 college students with at least 6 years of musical instruction before age 12 and 30 students with no such training. The musically trained were found to be better at recalling words read to them from a list. The researchers noted that the left planum temporal region behind the left ear is known to be larger in musicians. That part of the brain also handles verbal memory and also suggested that music training may be an entertaining and useful way of improving verbal memory in children.