At-risk elementary school children with one year of classroom music instruction are better at keeping a beat.

Temporal processing underlies both music and language skills. There is increasing evidence that rhythm abilities track with reading performance and that language disorders such as dyslexia are associated with poor rhythm abilities. However, little is known about how basic time-keeping skills can be...

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Main Authors: Jessica Slater, Adam Tierney, Nina Kraus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3795075?pdf=render