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1. "It seems that musical aptitude is one of the strongest predictors of success in a technical position. The highest scores on the admissions test and best performers have been people with a background in music . . . There seems to be a high correlation between musical ability and reasoning skills," Terry Skwarek, director of the Institute for Professional Development in the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems at DePaul University in Chicago. Why musicians may make the best tech workers, Kathleen Melymuka, CNN Internet, 7/31/98.
2. "Arts education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate; the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence." Joseph M. Calahan, Director of Corporate Communications for the Xerox Corporation
3. "We have been exploring the link between music and spatial-temporal reasoning (the ability to perform operations on objects in time and space, such as in geometry or physics) based on a neural network model called the "trion" model. We have found that music training provided to young children, causes long-term enhancement of spatial-temporal abilities . . . " Music Training and "Spatial-Temporal Reasoning", Dr. Frances H. Rauscher, Artsedge Internet, 11/23/98.
4. Dr. George Lozonov, Bulgarian founder of accelerated learning techniques, has researched the most effective music to use in his system. He has found that Baroque and Romantic music offer the ideal background for enhancing the learning of any subject. In using this system, corporate training programs and schools often cut learning time in half. - Dee Dickinson: Music and the Mind: New Horizons of Learning. (Courtesy of MENC)
5. Dr. Jean Houston of the Foundation for Mind Research says that children without access to an arts program are actually damaging their brain. They are not being exposed to non-verbal tools that can assist them in reading, writing and math. -- Roehmann, Franz L. & Wilson, Frank R. (1988). The Biology of Music Making Proceedings of the 1984 Denver Conference. St. Louis: MMB Music Inc. (Courtesy of MENC)
6. "Students with coursework/experience in music performance scored higher on the SAT: 51 points higher on the verbal and 39 points higher on the math for music performance than students with no arts participation. Students with four or more years of arts study scored 59 points higher on the verbal and 44 points higher on the math portions than students with no experience in the arts."- 1995 College-Bound Seniors National Report: Profile of SAT Program Test Takers, The College Entrance Examination Board, Princeton, NJ. (Courtesy of MENC)
7. The study involved 78 three-and four-year-old children of normal intelligence from three preschools in Southern California. Thirty-four received private piano lessons, 20 received private computer instruction, ten received group singing lessons and 14 in a control group received no special lessons. None had prior music lessons or computer training.

Practicing music has been a great boon for children's I.Q.

In the Kindergarten classes of the school district of Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, children who were given music instruction scored 48% higher on spatial-temporal skill tests than those who did not receive music training. - Rauscher, F.H., and Zupan, M.A. (1999). Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: A field study. Manuscript in press, Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Students in two Rhode Island elementary schools who were given an enriched, sequential, skill-building music program showed marked improvement in reading and math skills. Students in the enriched program who had started out behind the control group caught up to statistical equality in reading, and pulled ahead in math. - Gardiner, Fox, Jeffrey and Knowles, as reported in Nature, May 23, 1996.

A research team exploring the link between music and intelligence reported that music training is far superior to computer instruction in dramatically enhancing children's abstract reasoning skills, the skills necessary for learning math and science. - Shaw, Rauscher, Levine, Wright, Dennis and Newcomb, Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal reasoning. Neurological Research, Vol. 19, February 1997..

A University of California (Irvine) study showed that after eight months of keyboard lessons, preschoolers showed a 46% boost in their spatial reasoning IQ. - Rausher, Shaw, Levine, Ky and Wright, Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Causal Relationship. University of California, Irvine, 1994.

Students who participated in arts programs in selected elementary and middle schools in New York City showed significant increases in self-esteem and thinking skills. - National Arts Education Research Center, New York University, 1990.

Researchers at the University of Montreal used various brain imaging techniques to investigate brain activity during musical tasks and found that sight-reading musical scores and playing music both activate regions in all four of the cortex’s lobes; and that parts of the cerebellum are also activated during those tasks. - Sergent, J., Zuck, E., Tenial, S., and MacDonall, B. (1992). Distributed neural network underlying musical sight-reading and keyboard performance. Science, 257, 106 - 109.

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