Does Mozart Help Your Baby’s Brain?
That’s one of the many questions explored by Jayson Greene in his latest article: ‘The truth is, no one knows what music does in the brain. We know that musical training has observable benefits, just as we know that listening to music can have a powerful effect on people with certain cognitive disorders—aphasics, for example, or people whose short-term memory has been impaired. But when it comes to tracing the penny of music as it rolls through the vaults of an average brain, we are still basically helpless.’
