Though this article was incredibly short, it made a huge impact to me. It is amazing how just learning music can increase your I.Q. by 3.7 points! It is also amazing that music increases your coordination and memorization skills. Memorization skills can be very important if you are studying for a test, where you need to know all of the material. I think that this article kind of ties in with the "Learning in your sleep" article from last blog. Did the people in the learning in your sleep study take music lessons, because that could help you memorize the sound with the smell. The test was done on first graders (music not sleep), but what if a Sophmore in high school started piano, would the results be the same? This could be a huge factor. If a 45 year old man starts taking trombone, and the article says it helps young growing minds, will his I.Q. increase, or is it just for young kids. This can be a huge factor in life, because music makes the world sound beautiful, and with this dark world, it needs light.
I think that this article was really cool (like Grace said, it was short). It sorta ties in with something I was talking to someone with, if you get more sleep your IQ will be raised. I think that people are slowly finding out more and more ways on how to raise your IQ and become smarter in a way. People should really take this into thought and apply this to their lives. I think that learning music increases the level of your IQ because music is found a little in each side of the brain, so learning music will enlarge both sides of the brain rather than just the left, or just the right. This is probably a big part in why it helps the brain. This theory probably works best on younger children because at the ages 3-5 that is the best time to learn something new. The brain at that age is still developing majorly and so it is easier to learn it at a younger age.
I agree with the points Gracie and Chloe brought up. It is very interesting to think about how many children play instruments and how many don't even know that by doing that, they are making themselves smarter. Does this study kind of tie into the study about how listening to classical music when working will make you contrate, leading you to better grades? Are these two studies both saying the same thing? What I took from these studies is that is doesn't matter if you know how to sing or not, or if you know how to play an instrument or not, I think it is just about having the ability to memorize things, not necessarily just information, but positioning. What I mean by this is: The first month or maybe less when I started playing my clarinet, I had to constantly keep looking at my fingers to see if they were in the right position or not. But after a while, magic seemed to happen! I never had to look down at my fingers as I was playing again! I never really figured out how that happened. Actually, I have been thinking about this for the past couple of days because on Monday and Tuesday I had an orchestra concert and on Monday, this girl who plays the violin was practicing and I asked her how she memorized the positions of her fingers for each not, since on a violin you could make thousands of notes. Actually you could easily mess up on a note if your fingers aren't in the right places. Her answer to my question was that you start out with tape, and then eventually your fingers memorize where they are supposed to go, which seemed a bit odd to me because everybody know that fingers don't actually think, your brain is the one who thinks and then send signals to other parts of your body. But now that I'm thinking about it, memory of position and memory of words seems to eb about the same thing, since your brain really just does all the work. Well, overall, I thought that this article was really interesting, and aroused many different opinions with me.
This article was pretty cool, but as it said, the tiny difference does not mean a lot. Remember that your IQ is just your potential. Raising your IQ does not mean that you will become smarter. When these kind of articles are posted that seemingly "make you smarter" I think that they might not be doing enough research on the kids. This article did not specify if these kids had around the same IQ, they did not even say if these kids went to the same school! If they are averaged, you don't know if some kids went down, and if there were a few naturally smart kids who were boosting the groups' average. But if this was true, I think it would be cool if Mirman knew about this kind of stuff. Maybe that is why they have us do so many musical things. Overall, I don't believe that the article itself was interesting, but it definitely got me thinking.
I think that it is cool, but weird. I know how it could be possible though. It seems like you would be learning a lot when you are using an instrument which makes a lot of sense. It is interesting to find such small differences in IQ that could actually make a big difference. I actually think that it makes sense because most of the kids I know at Mirman play an instrument and all the kids at Mirman have high IQs, so that means that this could definitely make sense. I think that this a neat invention and that the more people who read this article, the more people that will be playing instruments.
This is such an amazing article! Though it was short I think the message is amazing. If you play music you will become smarter. I have played guitar and sang for three years and so these studies actually quite please me. However, as Grace mentioned it was done on first graders. Even at our ages the result would be very different. The IQ, because we are at a still young age would probably increase by a bit. Then again, it could be better at this age since we can digest a little more than we could six years ago. And since we can read better than first graders we could develop more quickly. I think this is an interesting article to people who play music and people who don't play music. I think it could encourage some kids and adults to pick up a guitar or sing. I think since we are more willing to practice things and work for a goal than we were six years ago, this is another reason why I think that if we took the test then our IQ might go up more. However, there are some major flaws in the test. Based on how well they can learn and how good of a school year they have this can severely damage the quality of the test. Also, some people might generally be smarter than others. For instance, there would be a big difference if you tested students at Yale and another minor school with worse academics. This shows how big an impact music can have on our everyday lives, besides what we usually use it for: listening to the radio, calming us down, etc. This article made me think about my life before I played music and what it would take for me to give it up now that I've started. It also makes me imagine what life would be like if there was no music. One word pops into my mind: terrible. Overall, this article really makes you think about music and music lessons in a whole new way
I agree with Grace in every possible way. This article was short, but it had a huge impact on me as well as Grace. I loved Izzy's story about her clarinet and now I'm going to share one about playing guitar. I started playing guitar a little while ago, and I haven't been playing that long. I'm still at the point where, as Izzy said, I have to look at my fingers on the neck of the guitar to see if I'm playing the chord right. I feel like when I play guitar, the skills don't come as easily as when I play piano, which I've been playing for 8 years. When I started piano, the keys were just big squares that made music, but as Izzy said, "Magic started to happen!" If your brain tells you to memorize a smell or a sound, then it's logical that it would be able to tell you to memorize a movement. But what if you wanted to memorize a series of movements, that related to a sound, like music, but then added a taste or a scent. Is it possible? Judging by past information, it probably is, but that would be cool and interesting to tie in ALL your senses into one action that your brain could memorize. Another agreement with Grace: If music could really increase ANYONE'S I.Q. scores, then we should all start making music! I do have one question though: If music can increase an I.Q., then can't any sound that's associated with a movement and thinking increase them as well?
Wow.... this was amazing... I really agree with Izzy, and Elena when they say that memorizing a movement is possible. If you think about it, memorizing a taste is also possible because every time you eat a strawberry (for example) you know it is a strawberry because of it's taste. Now, let's say you eat the same type of cheese, everyday for a year. Two years later, you eat it with your eyes closed, and you would probably say, "Oh! That's American Cheese!" So, so far we have covered taste, and sense (movement). Now on to smell. You can memorize a smell also because like I said before, if you smell a certain perfume everyday for 2 months, and smell it again 5 months later, you will say, "Oh! That is that certain perfume!" Now, you can also memorize a sound. Back onto music, you might not be 100 percent sure that you are playing the right notes when you are not looking at your fingers, but if you memorize the sound of the piece you are playing, you will know when you are doing something wrong. Personally, I have memorized many sounds. This includes when I played piano (what I just described), when I play guitar (I still do) (what I just described), etc. Now, the last sense. Seeing... This one is tricky. You can say well if I look at a paper several times, I won't be able to memorize everything that is on it... Well that doesn't mean you cannot memorize something that you see. If you go to school everyday for 6 months and see your friend Gabby. 10 years later, you walk by her and you will recognizer her face. This happened to my mom last week. She was walking around in NYC, and she sees someone that looks familiar. She then figures out it was her super old but good friend and they never kept in touch. She hadn't seen her for 25 years, but still remembered from the look of her face. Even though this isn't the main point of the article, it still has relating things. I agree with everyone and this was very interesting
Wow! This article was a very interesting read. I agree with Annie, you would most likely know what something is when you either use one of your senses. This article was cool showing us that we could memorize something due to our senses. Also like what Chloe said, a bunch of students at Mirman play instruments and we all have high IQs. This was a well composed article and had my brain thinking of all of the possibilities out there.
I think that this article was very interesting. I would have liked to know more about how this happens. This article was much shorter then i would have liked it to be. I think that memorizing things does not always help. Memorizing something doesn't mean that you understand something. I think this method can be effective in ways. I think a lot more research is needed to prove this is true.
I agree and disagree with this article. I agree that music lessons make you smarter, but I don't agree that when you don't take music lessons you are less smarter than people who take music lessons. I have come across this in my every day life: My entire family except my dad is musical and are all exceptionally smart. While not taking music lessons or being musical, my dad remains to be just as smart as the rest of my family.
I think this article could be right, but it needs more information and data to proof itself right.
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Though this article was incredibly short, it made a huge impact to me. It is amazing how just learning music can increase your I.Q. by 3.7 points! It is also amazing that music increases your coordination and memorization skills. Memorization skills can be very important if you are studying for a test, where you need to know all of the material. I think that this article kind of ties in with the "Learning in your sleep" article from last blog. Did the people in the learning in your sleep study take music lessons, because that could help you memorize the sound with the smell. The test was done on first graders (music not sleep), but what if a Sophmore in high school started piano, would the results be the same? This could be a huge factor. If a 45 year old man starts taking trombone, and the article says it helps young growing minds, will his I.Q. increase, or is it just for young kids. This can be a huge factor in life, because music makes the world sound beautiful, and with this dark world, it needs light.
I think that this article was really cool (like Grace said, it was short). It sorta ties in with something I was talking to someone with, if you get more sleep your IQ will be raised. I think that people are slowly finding out more and more ways on how to raise your IQ and become smarter in a way. People should really take this into thought and apply this to their lives. I think that learning music increases the level of your IQ because music is found a little in each side of the brain, so learning music will enlarge both sides of the brain rather than just the left, or just the right. This is probably a big part in why it helps the brain. This theory probably works best on younger children because at the ages 3-5 that is the best time to learn something new. The brain at that age is still developing majorly and so it is easier to learn it at a younger age.
I agree with the points Gracie and Chloe brought up. It is very interesting to think about how many children play instruments and how many don't even know that by doing that, they are making themselves smarter. Does this study kind of tie into the study about how listening to classical music when working will make you contrate, leading you to better grades? Are these two studies both saying the same thing? What I took from these studies is that is doesn't matter if you know how to sing or not, or if you know how to play an instrument or not, I think it is just about having the ability to memorize things, not necessarily just information, but positioning.
What I mean by this is:
The first month or maybe less when I started playing my clarinet, I had to constantly keep looking at my fingers to see if they were in the right position or not. But after a while, magic seemed to happen! I never had to look down at my fingers as I was playing again! I never really figured out how that happened. Actually, I have been thinking about this for the past couple of days because on Monday and Tuesday I had an orchestra concert and on Monday, this girl who plays the violin was practicing and I asked her how she memorized the positions of her fingers for each not, since on a violin you could make thousands of notes. Actually you could easily mess up on a note if your fingers aren't in the right places. Her answer to my question was that you start out with tape, and then eventually your fingers memorize where they are supposed to go, which seemed a bit odd to me because everybody know that fingers don't actually think, your brain is the one who thinks and then send signals to other parts of your body. But now that I'm thinking about it, memory of position and memory of words seems to eb about the same thing, since your brain really just does all the work.
Well, overall, I thought that this article was really interesting, and aroused many different opinions with me.
This article was pretty cool, but as it said, the tiny difference does not mean a lot. Remember that your IQ is just your potential. Raising your IQ does not mean that you will become smarter. When these kind of articles are posted that seemingly "make you smarter" I think that they might not be doing enough research on the kids. This article did not specify if these kids had around the same IQ, they did not even say if these kids went to the same school! If they are averaged, you don't know if some kids went down, and if there were a few naturally smart kids who were boosting the groups' average. But if this was true, I think it would be cool if Mirman knew about this kind of stuff. Maybe that is why they have us do so many musical things. Overall, I don't believe that the article itself was interesting, but it definitely got me thinking.
I think that it is cool, but weird. I know how it could be possible though. It seems like you would be learning a lot when you are using an instrument which makes a lot of sense. It is interesting to find such small differences in IQ that could actually make a big difference. I actually think that it makes sense because most of the kids I know at Mirman play an instrument and all the kids at Mirman have high IQs, so that means that this could definitely make sense. I think that this a neat invention and that the more people who read this article, the more people that will be playing instruments.
This is such an amazing article! Though it was short I think the message is amazing. If you play music you will become smarter. I have played guitar and sang for three years and so these studies actually quite please me. However, as Grace mentioned it was done on first graders. Even at our ages the result would be very different. The IQ, because we are at a still young age would probably increase by a bit. Then again, it could be better at this age since we can digest a little more than we could six years ago. And since we can read better than first graders we could develop more quickly. I think this is an interesting article to people who play music and people who don't play music. I think it could encourage some kids and adults to pick up a guitar or sing. I think since we are more willing to practice things and work for a goal than we were six years ago, this is another reason why I think that if we took the test then our IQ might go up more. However, there are some major flaws in the test. Based on how well they can learn and how good of a school year they have this can severely damage the quality of the test. Also, some people might generally be smarter than others. For instance, there would be a big difference if you tested students at Yale and another minor school with worse academics. This shows how big an impact music can have on our everyday lives, besides what we usually use it for: listening to the radio, calming us down, etc. This article made me think about my life before I played music and what it would take for me to give it up now that I've started. It also makes me imagine what life would be like if there was no music. One word pops into my mind: terrible. Overall, this article really makes you think about music and music lessons in a whole new way
I agree with Grace in every possible way. This article was short, but it had a huge impact on me as well as Grace. I loved Izzy's story about her clarinet and now I'm going to share one about playing guitar.
I started playing guitar a little while ago, and I haven't been playing that long. I'm still at the point where, as Izzy said, I have to look at my fingers on the neck of the guitar to see if I'm playing the chord right. I feel like when I play guitar, the skills don't come as easily as when I play piano, which I've been playing for 8 years. When I started piano, the keys were just big squares that made music, but as Izzy said, "Magic started to happen!"
If your brain tells you to memorize a smell or a sound, then it's logical that it would be able to tell you to memorize a movement. But what if you wanted to memorize a series of movements, that related to a sound, like music, but then added a taste or a scent. Is it possible? Judging by past information, it probably is, but that would be cool and interesting to tie in ALL your senses into one action that your brain could memorize.
Another agreement with Grace: If music could really increase ANYONE'S I.Q. scores, then we should all start making music! I do have one question though: If music can increase an I.Q., then can't any sound that's associated with a movement and thinking increase them as well?
Wow.... this was amazing... I really agree with Izzy, and Elena when they say that memorizing a movement is possible. If you think about it, memorizing a taste is also possible because every time you eat a strawberry (for example) you know it is a strawberry because of it's taste. Now, let's say you eat the same type of cheese, everyday for a year. Two years later, you eat it with your eyes closed, and you would probably say, "Oh! That's American Cheese!" So, so far we have covered taste, and sense (movement). Now on to smell. You can memorize a smell also because like I said before, if you smell a certain perfume everyday for 2 months, and smell it again 5 months later, you will say, "Oh! That is that certain perfume!" Now, you can also memorize a sound. Back onto music, you might not be 100 percent sure that you are playing the right notes when you are not looking at your fingers, but if you memorize the sound of the piece you are playing, you will know when you are doing something wrong. Personally, I have memorized many sounds. This includes when I played piano (what I just described), when I play guitar (I still do) (what I just described), etc. Now, the last sense. Seeing... This one is tricky. You can say well if I look at a paper several times, I won't be able to memorize everything that is on it... Well that doesn't mean you cannot memorize something that you see. If you go to school everyday for 6 months and see your friend Gabby. 10 years later, you walk by her and you will recognizer her face. This happened to my mom last week. She was walking around in NYC, and she sees someone that looks familiar. She then figures out it was her super old but good friend and they never kept in touch. She hadn't seen her for 25 years, but still remembered from the look of her face. Even though this isn't the main point of the article, it still has relating things. I agree with everyone and this was very interesting
Wow! This article was a very interesting read. I agree with Annie, you would most likely know what something is when you either use one of your senses. This article was cool showing us that we could memorize something due to our senses. Also like what Chloe said, a bunch of students at Mirman play instruments and we all have high IQs. This was a well composed article and had my brain thinking of all of the possibilities out there.
I think that this article was very interesting. I would have liked to know more about how this happens. This article was much shorter then i would have liked it to be. I think that memorizing things does not always help. Memorizing something doesn't mean that you understand something. I think this method can be effective in ways. I think a lot more research is needed to prove this is true.
I agree and disagree with this article. I agree that music lessons make you smarter, but I don't agree that when you don't take music lessons you are less smarter than people who take music lessons. I have come across this in my every day life: My entire family except my dad is musical and are all exceptionally smart. While not taking music lessons or being musical, my dad remains to be just as smart as the rest of my family.
I think this article could be right, but it needs more information and data to proof itself right.
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