英語(yǔ)資源頻道為大家整理的雙語(yǔ)新聞閱讀：早期對(duì)兒童進(jìn)行音樂訓(xùn)練 有助于大腦發(fā)育，供大家閱讀參考。
Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
Brain scans of young adults revealed that those who had formal musical training before the age of seven had thicker brain regions that deal with hearing and self-awareness.
The findings highlight how brain development can be influenced by the age that children start to learn a musical instrument, and how those changes can persist into later life.
"Early musical training does more good for kids than just making it easier for them to enjoy music. It changes the brain and these brain changes could lead to cognitive advances as well," said Yunxin Wang of Beijing Normal University.
"Our results suggest it might be better to start musical training before age seven, which is consistent with what most piano teachers recommend," she added.
Wang devised the study to investigate whether musical training early on in life had any lasting effect on the structure of the brain. She hoped the results might help parents decide when was best for their children to learn an instrument.
The brain's cortex plays a leading role in scores of crucial abilities, from thought and language to memory and attention. The region matures rapidly in the early years of life, and its development could be affected more if a person started musical training before it fully matured.
Wang studied 48 Han Chinese aged between 19 and 21 who had received formal music training for at least a year sometime between the ages of three and 15. Each had a magnetic resonance scan to measure the thickness of the cortex and the volume of grey matter in their brains.
After taking gender and the number of years spent having music lessons into account, Wang found that musical training that started before the age of seven appeared to thicken areas of the brain involved in language skills and executive function, which is a person's ability to plan and carry out tasks. She presented the results at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.
"We're not sure why these changes arise, but a reasonable explanation is that early starters might rely more on auditory clues during learning music, since it might be more difficult for younger children to read music," Wang said.The findings build on earlier work that suggests musical training before the age of seven can have a significant impact on the brain's development. Earlier this year, researchers at Concordia University in Montreal showed that people who took music lessons before seven years old had stronger connections between motor regions of the brain, which are involved in making movements, and the sensory areas.
Wang hopes to look at whether the age people start musical training has any meaningful impact on their cognitive skills as an adult, and on the rate at which their brain function declines with age. "As we know the brain is the executive organ of our mind, these changes might possibly reduce the ageing of the auditory system," she said.
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對(duì)青少年的大腦掃描表明，在七歲之前有過正規(guī)音樂訓(xùn)練的人，處理聽力與自我意識(shí)的大腦區(qū)域會(huì)相對(duì)更厚。
這一發(fā)現(xiàn)強(qiáng)調(diào)，孩提時(shí)期的樂器學(xué)習(xí)如何對(duì)大腦發(fā)展產(chǎn)生影響以及這些影響是如何在日后生活中延續(xù)的。
“早期的音樂訓(xùn)練比讓孩子單純地欣賞音樂更有好處。音樂訓(xùn)練可以改變改變大腦，這些改變又帶來認(rèn)知研究進(jìn)展，”北京師范大學(xué)的王云馨（音）說道。
她補(bǔ)充道，“這個(gè)結(jié)果表明，孩子在七歲之前進(jìn)行音樂訓(xùn)練比較好，許多鋼琴老師也是這樣建議的。”
王設(shè)計(jì)了一項(xiàng)研究，調(diào)查早期的音樂訓(xùn)練是否對(duì)大腦結(jié)構(gòu)有持續(xù)的影響。她希望研究結(jié)果可以幫助父母了解何時(shí)開始學(xué)習(xí)樂器對(duì)孩子是好的。
大腦皮質(zhì)對(duì)思考與表達(dá)、記憶與注意力的能力而言具有決定性作用。這個(gè)區(qū)域在幼年迅速成熟，但是如果在其還未完全成熟時(shí)進(jìn)行音樂訓(xùn)練，對(duì)大腦皮質(zhì)的發(fā)展具有重要影響。
王對(duì)48個(gè)19-21歲并在其3-15歲進(jìn)行過至少一年音樂訓(xùn)練的漢族學(xué)生進(jìn)行了調(diào)查，通過對(duì)每個(gè)學(xué)生進(jìn)行磁共振掃描來測(cè)量皮質(zhì)厚度和大腦中的灰質(zhì)體積。
在將性別與音樂訓(xùn)練的年限納入考慮因素后，王發(fā)現(xiàn)七歲之前有進(jìn)行過音樂訓(xùn)練的人在語(yǔ)言能力和計(jì)劃與執(zhí)行能力方面的大腦區(qū)域更厚，執(zhí)行能力主要涉及制定計(jì)劃和完成任務(wù)。她在圣地亞哥的神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)學(xué)會(huì)年會(huì)上展示了這一結(jié)果。
“我們還不知道為什么會(huì)發(fā)生這種變化，但是一個(gè)合理的解釋可能是，幼年學(xué)習(xí)音樂的兒童在學(xué)習(xí)過程中，會(huì)把注意力集中在聽覺線索上，因?yàn)榻庾x音樂對(duì)他們來說實(shí)在太難?！?BR> 這個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)建立在今年初的研究基礎(chǔ)之上，本年初的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，七歲之前的音樂培訓(xùn)對(duì)大腦發(fā)展具有重要意義。其中，蒙特利爾的康考迪亞大學(xué)的研究者發(fā)現(xiàn)，在七歲之前參加音樂課程的人的大腦運(yùn)動(dòng)區(qū)域之間有更強(qiáng)的聯(lián)系，包括運(yùn)動(dòng)區(qū)和感覺區(qū)。
王表示，她希望可以觀察早期的音樂訓(xùn)練對(duì)成年人的認(rèn)知能力是否有影響，以及在什么年齡段大腦機(jī)能開始衰退。“就我們所知，大腦是思想的執(zhí)行者，這些變化可能會(huì)減緩聽覺系統(tǒng)的老化?！蓖跽f道。
Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
Brain scans of young adults revealed that those who had formal musical training before the age of seven had thicker brain regions that deal with hearing and self-awareness.
The findings highlight how brain development can be influenced by the age that children start to learn a musical instrument, and how those changes can persist into later life.
"Early musical training does more good for kids than just making it easier for them to enjoy music. It changes the brain and these brain changes could lead to cognitive advances as well," said Yunxin Wang of Beijing Normal University.
"Our results suggest it might be better to start musical training before age seven, which is consistent with what most piano teachers recommend," she added.
Wang devised the study to investigate whether musical training early on in life had any lasting effect on the structure of the brain. She hoped the results might help parents decide when was best for their children to learn an instrument.
The brain's cortex plays a leading role in scores of crucial abilities, from thought and language to memory and attention. The region matures rapidly in the early years of life, and its development could be affected more if a person started musical training before it fully matured.
Wang studied 48 Han Chinese aged between 19 and 21 who had received formal music training for at least a year sometime between the ages of three and 15. Each had a magnetic resonance scan to measure the thickness of the cortex and the volume of grey matter in their brains.
After taking gender and the number of years spent having music lessons into account, Wang found that musical training that started before the age of seven appeared to thicken areas of the brain involved in language skills and executive function, which is a person's ability to plan and carry out tasks. She presented the results at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.
"We're not sure why these changes arise, but a reasonable explanation is that early starters might rely more on auditory clues during learning music, since it might be more difficult for younger children to read music," Wang said.The findings build on earlier work that suggests musical training before the age of seven can have a significant impact on the brain's development. Earlier this year, researchers at Concordia University in Montreal showed that people who took music lessons before seven years old had stronger connections between motor regions of the brain, which are involved in making movements, and the sensory areas.
Wang hopes to look at whether the age people start musical training has any meaningful impact on their cognitive skills as an adult, and on the rate at which their brain function declines with age. "As we know the brain is the executive organ of our mind, these changes might possibly reduce the ageing of the auditory system," she said.
相關(guān)內(nèi)容
對(duì)青少年的大腦掃描表明，在七歲之前有過正規(guī)音樂訓(xùn)練的人，處理聽力與自我意識(shí)的大腦區(qū)域會(huì)相對(duì)更厚。
這一發(fā)現(xiàn)強(qiáng)調(diào)，孩提時(shí)期的樂器學(xué)習(xí)如何對(duì)大腦發(fā)展產(chǎn)生影響以及這些影響是如何在日后生活中延續(xù)的。
“早期的音樂訓(xùn)練比讓孩子單純地欣賞音樂更有好處。音樂訓(xùn)練可以改變改變大腦，這些改變又帶來認(rèn)知研究進(jìn)展，”北京師范大學(xué)的王云馨（音）說道。
她補(bǔ)充道，“這個(gè)結(jié)果表明，孩子在七歲之前進(jìn)行音樂訓(xùn)練比較好，許多鋼琴老師也是這樣建議的。”
王設(shè)計(jì)了一項(xiàng)研究，調(diào)查早期的音樂訓(xùn)練是否對(duì)大腦結(jié)構(gòu)有持續(xù)的影響。她希望研究結(jié)果可以幫助父母了解何時(shí)開始學(xué)習(xí)樂器對(duì)孩子是好的。
大腦皮質(zhì)對(duì)思考與表達(dá)、記憶與注意力的能力而言具有決定性作用。這個(gè)區(qū)域在幼年迅速成熟，但是如果在其還未完全成熟時(shí)進(jìn)行音樂訓(xùn)練，對(duì)大腦皮質(zhì)的發(fā)展具有重要影響。
王對(duì)48個(gè)19-21歲并在其3-15歲進(jìn)行過至少一年音樂訓(xùn)練的漢族學(xué)生進(jìn)行了調(diào)查，通過對(duì)每個(gè)學(xué)生進(jìn)行磁共振掃描來測(cè)量皮質(zhì)厚度和大腦中的灰質(zhì)體積。
在將性別與音樂訓(xùn)練的年限納入考慮因素后，王發(fā)現(xiàn)七歲之前有進(jìn)行過音樂訓(xùn)練的人在語(yǔ)言能力和計(jì)劃與執(zhí)行能力方面的大腦區(qū)域更厚，執(zhí)行能力主要涉及制定計(jì)劃和完成任務(wù)。她在圣地亞哥的神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)學(xué)會(huì)年會(huì)上展示了這一結(jié)果。
“我們還不知道為什么會(huì)發(fā)生這種變化，但是一個(gè)合理的解釋可能是，幼年學(xué)習(xí)音樂的兒童在學(xué)習(xí)過程中，會(huì)把注意力集中在聽覺線索上，因?yàn)榻庾x音樂對(duì)他們來說實(shí)在太難?！?BR> 這個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)建立在今年初的研究基礎(chǔ)之上，本年初的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，七歲之前的音樂培訓(xùn)對(duì)大腦發(fā)展具有重要意義。其中，蒙特利爾的康考迪亞大學(xué)的研究者發(fā)現(xiàn)，在七歲之前參加音樂課程的人的大腦運(yùn)動(dòng)區(qū)域之間有更強(qiáng)的聯(lián)系，包括運(yùn)動(dòng)區(qū)和感覺區(qū)。
王表示，她希望可以觀察早期的音樂訓(xùn)練對(duì)成年人的認(rèn)知能力是否有影響，以及在什么年齡段大腦機(jī)能開始衰退。“就我們所知，大腦是思想的執(zhí)行者，這些變化可能會(huì)減緩聽覺系統(tǒng)的老化?！蓖跽f道。