Benefits of music training are widespread and lifelong: A bibliographic review of their non-musical effects

Medical Problems of Performing Artists

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 57-63

  Dawson, William J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN CELL; COORDINATION; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; NEUROANATOMY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; TRAINING; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR SKILLS; READING;

EID: 84904642263     PISSN: 08851158     EISSN: 19382766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21091/mppa.2014.2014     Document Type: Review

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