Analysis on "First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children"

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        The article First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children, informs the reader about what the positives that music has on developing the brain. In this Article, the authors of this article were all doctors, scientists and professors such as Dr. Laurel Trainor (professor at McMaster University), Dr. Takako Fujioka (Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute), and others. This shows that this article has credibility and is reliable. For example it talks about an experiment that was tested to see about how music affects memory.  So children who took a memory test after spending a year in a music class scored a lot higher than those students who didn't take the class.
         With the results, Prof. Trainor was not surprised with the data and Dr. Fujioka added ," Previous work has shown assignment to musical training is associated with improvements in IQ in young children." So it is safe to say that this article is pretty much reliable but doesn't really show any other side to the argument besides the side that they experimented. So it can be bias. Overall this article is credible.

Link:    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060920093024.htm