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Young musicians get smarter, study suggests

Posted Nov 17, 2008, updated Nov 17, 2008.

Children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training on non-musical tests of vocabulary and non-verbal reasoning.

Read the MSNBC article.

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