Administrative Leadership, Fall 1999 Administrative Leadership Research Spotlight Music Training Enhances Brain Functions. A new study shows that taking piano lessons significantly improves specific math skills of elementary school children . Prior UCI studies predicted that early music training would enhance spatial-temporal reasoning, and a 1997 study indicated that preschoolers given six months of piano keyboard lessons improved dramatically on such reasoning.
Music involves ratios, fractions, proportions, and thinking in space and time.
They were able to leap ahead several steps on problems in their heads. Return to Administrative Leadership, Fall 1999.