A new study at Northwestern University provides the first direct evidence that a community music program for at-risk kids has a biological effect on children's developing nervous systems. Two years of music lessons improved the precision with which the children's brains distinguished similar speech sounds, a neural process that is linked to language and reading skills. One year of training, however, was insufficient to spark changes in the nervous system. "This ...
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