Registration fee waived for all families of children birth-5. Six-week session starts March 8th. St. Anthony's Wellness Center, Alton Mall. To register or for more information, call 463-5340. News Clipping Music Study Boosts Recall of Words by the Associated Press.
Musical training appears to tune up the brain's ability to remember words, too.
Confirming what many music teachers have long believed, psychologists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong found a 16 percent better word memorization on average for adults who studied music as children. The findings are in today's journal Nature. The study involved 30 college students with at least six years of musical instruction before age 12 and 30 students with no such training. The musically trained were found better at recalling words read to them from a list. However, they were no better at remembering and drawing simple designs from memory.