Congnition
Music education increases and accelerates cognitive progression. Cognitive progression is the development of a person's ability to think from infancy to adulthood. The effects of music education on one’s cognitive development are well-documented and recorded. In a 2008 study entitled “Arts and Cognition Monograph: Effects of Music Training” performed by researchers involved in The Dana Foundation, eighty-eight preschoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds were enrolled in an experiment designed to prove or disprove the hypothesis, “music training causes improvements in several diverse aspects of cognition, and that one way music training produces these effects is by improving attention.” In this study, the researchers assigned small groups of these students to different classes with varying class sizes and tactics. One class acted as the control group in which students received regular instruction in their preschool without any additional training. After the eight week testing period, researchers saw strong and conclusive results. The children who had the music training improved better than the control group.
