Does Playing Piano Change More Than Listening?
Shownotes
What did making music add to hearing it? A small randomized study compared eleven weeks of piano lessons with listening to the same music and a quiet control activity. We follow its audio-visual timing result, its contrasting facial-expression result, and the limits that keep a specific finding from becoming a promise of a better brain.
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Source and study details
Che, Y., Jicol, C., Ashwin, C. & Petrini, K. (2022). An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing. Scientific Reports 12, 20087.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23340-4
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Cover image: study keyboard, Che et al. (2022), CC BY 4.0; cropped/resized. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/