Thursday, November 12, 2009

How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition

http://dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23206

How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition
By Michael I. Posner, Ph.D., and Brenda Patoine

Does education in the arts transfer to seemingly unrelated cognitive abilities? Researchers are finding evidence that it does. Michael Posner argues that when children find an art form that sustains their interest, the subsequent strengthening of their brains’ attention networks can improve cognition more broadly.

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