If you were an unwilling participant in long afternoons of childhood music lessons, it was probably worth it after all -- from your brain's perspective, anyway. A recent study shows that even limited childhood musical training can improve brain functions in adulthood. Dr. Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University, explains why even one year of music instruction at a young age can help adults years later with speech comprehension and deciphering sounds in a noisy room.
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