Neuroscientists’ Research Reinforces Music’s Impact on the Developing Brain

The University of Southern California Dornsife’s Assal Habibi has spent more than seven years researching the mental effects of music in a group of kids engaged in the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles music education program. Habibi began studying classical piano when she was five years old in Tehran, Iran. According to the studies thus far, learning music helps children's brains develop in positive ways, strengthening networks that process sound, language, and communication as well as activating regions involved in decision-making, attention control, and impulse inhibition.