Music is the Jackpot!

In this video, neurobiologist Nina Kraus explores the impact that music learning has on young students in the areas of reading skills, sound processing, language abilities, and more. It's a great video to share with your colleagues, parent network, and wider community!

The video contains excerpts from an ARTSpeaks event held on November 8, 2021. Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, Dr. Kraus’ research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) or worse (language disorders, concussion, aging, hearing loss), shape auditory processing.

In a 2017 interview, Dr. Kraus said that music instruction, "not only improves communication skills and creates a brain and nervous system that is more attuned to sound, which is important for both music and language, music can fundamentally alter the nervous system to create better learners." Consequently, music is, indeed, "the jackpot".