Sound Mixing

One study indicated that children who had three years or more of musical instrument training performed better in:

• auditory discrimination abilities
• fine motor skills
• vocabulary
• nonverbal reasoning skills

When you mix practice between two similar ideas or concepts, you’re better able to notice the difference between the two.

This discriminative account in favour of variable practice holds true for many problem-solving skills. Math problems are often taught in a blocked fashion. You learn so...

A network of auditory cortex nerves (the corticofugal network) helps with the recognition and cataloguing of the different audio patterns.

If a pattern matches with a familiar one already in the brain, it releases dopamine, which is the main reason why (your favourite) music is so emotiona...