"Children sign up to learn the violin, and most relatives at home oppose it. Some people even say that learning musical instruments will affect children's learning, and some even say that learning musical instruments will make the boy's character too soft ... "
Indeed, compared with the current mainstream interest class training, such as English, Olympics, programming and so on. Let children learn musical instruments. Most people think that:
"I can't eat the bowl of art, and it's useless to learn musical instruments."
"Learning musical instruments seems to be related to burning money, and it has nothing to do with me."
"I didn't learn English, math and Chinese well. What are you learning musical instruments for? "
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What should children do if they are interested in learning? As a parent, can you support his interest?
In fact, learning musical instruments has many benefits for children. In addition to improving children's aesthetic ability and artistic accomplishment, brain scientists have made new discoveries:
Robert Descimon, a neuroscientist at MIT, and his team conducted a study on the influence of musical instruments on children, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This study is like this:
The researchers randomly divided 74 Chinese-speaking children aged 4-5 in kindergartens in China into three groups.
A group of children have piano lessons for 45 minutes three times a week; Another group of children went to extra reading classes; The third group is the control group, and they don't take other classes except daily classes. Six months later, the researchers tested the children's ability to distinguish the tones, initials and finals of words.
The test results show that children who have taken piano lessons are obviously better at distinguishing Chinese characters with different initials than children who have taken reading lessons. At the same time, the first two groups of children are better than the control group in distinguishing Chinese characters with different vowels.
The researchers observed the children's brain activity through EEG. They found that the children in the piano group were more sensitive to the change of tone when they heard the cadence reading.
This means that learning musical instruments can improve children's ability to distinguish sounds, and then improve children's ability to learn languages.
Can learning musical instruments really make children smart?
The research results of neuroscientists tell you that it is.
Scientists used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology to scan the musicians' brains, and found that all important areas in the musicians' brains had strong reactions to music when playing musical instruments. For example, playing piano and other musical instruments that require both hands can stimulate and exercise the corpus callosum, which is very important for connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain. If stimulated for a long time, people's coordination ability will be greatly improved; When people play musical instruments or dance, their tactile response will stimulate the motor cortex in the brain, which specifically controls people's limb movements. In addition, when playing musical instruments, the brain also participates in other parts, such as hippocampus, amygdala and visual cortex, which are responsible for memory function, emotional control, visual perception and response. These important parts, in the coordinated command and performance of music, produce harmonious brain waves and make the brain function reach the best state.
Scientists have found that children who are not good at math can have better mathematical understanding ability after playing musical instruments, because they need to touch musical instruments with their fingers constantly when playing musical instruments. The strengthening of finger perception training can drive the body perception area of children's brain to carry out visual thinking training, and mathematics, a discipline that focuses on abstract thinking analysis and understanding, needs visual thinking to supplement and enhance it.
Research shows that the psychological activity of spatial analysis is the same as learning to play musical instruments. Playing musical instruments means that our brains are just like processing spatial information. The longer you play, the more your ability will improve, up to 30%. What is the ability of spatial analysis? For example, to solve particularly difficult problems and arrange complex things, we must first understand the relationship between them, which requires us to have the ability of spatial analysis to imagine and process spatial information.
When children play musical instruments, music improves their brain function and enhances their auditory attention, which is an ability to distinguish different sounds and carry out auditory memory. The longer you play a musical instrument, the better your child's ability to remember what he hears. In layman's terms, it is to enhance children's memory.
Some children sing while playing musical instruments, which can help children learn faster and not easily forget. Playing exciting concerts makes the brain produce more dopamine, which is a hormone that can make people happy and make us happy. When children's mood is in a happy state, the brain is more likely to accept new things and different ideas, and promote the formation of better learning ability.
In addition, we can notice that children who start reading music and practicing musical instruments at an early age generally have better visual function and motor skills than their peers.
Learning musical instruments has many benefits for children. If your child is interested in playing musical instruments, support him bravely! If your child shows no obvious interest and you want to enlighten your child in music, you can try this:
But there is no need to take listening to music as a very special thing. If parents have no special preference, they can provide their children with a variety of music environments, let them get used to the company of music and stimulate their cognition of music.
Before learning musical instruments, in addition to listening to music for children, we should also observe what instruments children like to play. Some children have a soft spot for the piano, while others are more intoxicated with the violin concerto. If you find that your child likes a certain musical instrument, it is likely that he is particularly sensitive to the timbre of this instrument.
Let the children contact with the master music environment, or tell him the stories of famous musicians and watch the biographical movies of the masters together.
Because for children who are just beginning to learn musical instruments, what they practice early is very boring. Children can know in advance that after boring basic exercises, they may also play beautiful music like masters, which is also an invisible incentive.
In a word, before a child begins to learn musical instruments formally, he should first be helped to establish a perceptual knowledge of music, so as to further stimulate his interest in music.
I have made up my mind to cultivate my daughter's interest in learning musical instruments. If I love her, I will let her learn musical instruments.