Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Re: Study: Music training improves RAPM and Verbal reasoning

The above study just shows a certain correlation exists between music
training and RAPM and VIQ, not that musical training improves RAPM and
VIQ. There are plenty of alternative causal relationships that could
explain the correlation. The article title and the first line of the
concluding paragraph both suggest that the musical training caused the
scores to improves, so its slightly misleading.

On May 30, 11:26 pm, "The.Fourth.Deviation." <davidsky...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> this is no surprise since the cited study above says that Music
> Training improves RAPM and VIQ, and should therefore implicity improve
> DNB performance.
>
> On May 26, 3:27 am, Arkanj3l <kenneth.bruskiew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > On May 26, 2:49 pm, "The.Fourth.Deviation." <davidsky...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > ailambris: who said it does?
> > > arkanj3l:http://www.interactivemetronome.com/impublic/Research/Efffect%20of%20...
> > > i did research on this after noticing that a music session in which i
> > > trained with a metronome was much more mentally taxing than training
> > > without. so i set out to determine the effects of metronomes on the brain.
> > > the findings are rather intuitive.

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