Article: Music has the power to enhance some kinds of higher brain function. (Originated from Boston Globe)

Music _ either performing it or listening to it _ has the power to enhance some kinds of higher brain function, a University of California research team has shown in new experiments with adults and preschool children. 
But it has to be the right kind of music. 
The findings, reported this month at the American Psychological Association meetings in Los Angeles, open new windows onto the way the brain works and how it can be primed to work better. They provide encouragement to a small but growing band of psychologists and educators who say music and other arts should be integrated into core curricula, not treated as frills offered _ if at all _ only to the artistically ...

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