Learning to play an instrument as a child can help you focus for longer and remember more throughout your life, a study has concluded. In their study, Dr Kausel and colleagues tested the attentions and working memories of 40 children aged between 10–13 years old. 'One that supports more domain-general attention mechanisms and another that supports more domain-specific auditory encoding mechanisms.' This loop is a system of working memory which processes sounds and coordinates them with physical movements. 'The next step of the project is to establish the causality of the mechanisms we found for improving attention and working memory,' Dr Kausel said.

Source: Daily Mail October 08, 2020 04:16 UTC