interestingly, right there in the title of the Mehr study it says “…Brief Preschool Music Enrichment…” The tile itself tells us why the study's conclusions came to such. The key is not "brief preschool music enrichment" but longer term musical training. This brought my attention once again to the so called “Mozart Effect”, a study done by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993) who’s investigations on the effect of listening to music by Mozart discovered participants gained a temporary enhancement of spatial-reasoning. However once again, there is a big difference between “brief” listening and longer term musical training.
But what about "The Mozart Effect"? After watching that video, we can see it’s important to make that distinction between listening to music and actively learning how to play an instrument and make music.
And here’s another excellent video. Amazing what goes on in the mind of a musician!
Now for those who like to read please check below where you’ll find some of the reports on dozens of supporting research, plus oodles of scholarly articles–and these are only a few of what’s out there.
For instance, Medical Daily (Jun 18, 2014) asks Does Music Make You Smarter?
I could go on…but, you get the picture!
My Grandma at age 100, who always was an accomplished pianist and opera singer. She played piano several hours every day until she passed away at 102 years old!
>There’s a photo of me playing with Anna Rose in their photo album.