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• June 1, 2011Science all but confirms that humans are hard-wired to respond to music. Studies also suggest that someday music may even help patients heal from Parkinson's disease or a stroke. In The Power of Music, Elena Mannes explores how music affects different groups of people and how it could play a role in health care. Mannes tracked the human relationship with music over the course of a life span. She tells NPR's Neal Conan that studies show that infants prefer "consonant intervals, the smooth-sounding ones that sound nice to our Western ears in a chord, as opposed to a jarring combination of notes." In fact, Mannes says the cries of babies just a few weeks old were found to contain some of the basic intervals common to Western music. She also says scientists have found that music stimulates more parts of the brain than any other human function. That's why she sees so much potential in music's power to change the brain and affect the way it works.
  http://www.npr.org/2011/06/01/136859090/the-power-of-music-to-affect-the-brain
• Music and Academic Achievement
• RESEARCH FINDINGS SHOW MUSIC CAN ENHANCE KEY COMPONENT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
• Cover Story Highlights Music Research -April 8, 1998 Issue Education Week
• Music Beats Computers at Enhancing Early Childhood Development
• FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF HUMAN MUSIC PROCESSING
• Researchers find Active Music Making Expands the Brain May 5, 1998 New York Times
• Bob Morrison  - American Music Conference
• Rauscher, Shaw, as reported in Neurological Research, February 1997 DR. FRANCES RAUSCHER
• Gardiner, Fox, Jeffry, and Knowles, as reported in Nature, May 23, 1996
• Making the Case for Music Education 2006 In Front of the Class by Gary Hopkins
• Stanford Report, February 2, 2005
  Dubious 'Mozart Effect' remains music to many Americans' ears
• There is some overlap between musical ability and math. Title Inter-domain transfer between mathemetical skills and musicianship.
• Title Music as embodied mathematics: A study of mutually informing affinity. Playing music can be good for your brain Stanford study finds it helps the understanding of language
• Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Causal Relationship, Rauscher, Shaw, Levine, KY and Wright, University of California, 1994
• Rauscher & Shaw, University of California, as reported in Nature
• N.H. Barry, Auburn University, 1992
• Lewis Thomas, as reported in Phi Delta Kappan, February 1994
• College Entrance Examination Board as reported in Symphony, Sep-Oct 1996
• The Mozart Effect, Don Campbell, 1997
• Grant Venerable, The Center for the Arts in the Basic Curriculum, New York, 1989
• University of Washington, Business Music: A Performance Tool for the Office/Workplace 1991
• Michigan State University as reported in The Mozart Effect, Don Campbell, 1997
• Dr. Thomas Verny, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
• Early Music Lessons Can Have Major Benefits
  Parents know that music carries our culture forward. If you want your child to be culturally literate, then you want him to study or listen to music," says Michael Blakeslee of the National Association for Music Education. Music Benefits include socialization, cooperation and mental agility.Other studies suggest that music helps children focus on the structure of sounds, an important aspect in language development.
• "Our findings underscore the pervasive impact of musical training on neurological development. Yet music classes are often among the first to be cut when school budgets get tight. That's a mistake," says Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology and Physiology and professor of communication sciences and disorders.
• MUSIC AND INSTINCT THE EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE