{"id":6075,"date":"2018-05-17T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:10:17","slug":"learning-music-or-another-language-increases-brains-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/learning-music-or-another-language-increases-brains-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning music or another language increases brains\u2019 efficiency<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you learn to play a musical instrument or speak another language, you&#8217;re training your brain to be more efficient. Researchers found that musicians and people who are bilingual utilized fewer brain resources when completing a working memory task. Individuals with either a musical or bilingual background activated different brain networks and showed less brain activity than people who only spoke one language and didn&#8217;t have formal music training to complete the task.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/nyas.13717\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published May 17, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author:<\/strong> Claude Alain, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre\/University of Toronto &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:calain@rotman-baycrest.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\">calain@rotman-baycrest.on.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you learn to play a musical instrument or speak another language, you&#8217;re training your brain to be more efficient. Researchers found that musicians and people who are bilingual utilized fewer brain resources when completing a working memory task. Individuals with either a musical or bilingual background activated different brain networks and showed less brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}