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Does Playing Piano Change More Than Listening?

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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…

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