Learning music or speaking another language leads to more efficient brains

(Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care) Whether you learn to play a musical instrument or speak another language, you're training your brain to be more efficient, suggests a Baycrest study.Researchers found that musicians and people who are bilingual utilized fewer brain resources when completing a working memory task, according to recently published findings in the journal, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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