Exercise: can music improve attention?

Beijing Normal University psychology professor Dr Liu Xiangping

Parents have recently asked me, did exercise music can improve the child\'s attention, piano correction can not hand-eye coordination, improving the writing ability? Attention in practice actions can improve learning, corrections don\'t concentrate. I think that these movements and exercises the main functions of music is not a solution to learning ability, not for correction of attention disorders, attention if you want to solve problems, focus or Ritalin drug than practice balance and skateboarding action more effective, if you want to solve the quality problems of lectures, auditory perception training must be more effective than studying music.
Parents often ill touyi, are anxiety for child\'s learning problems, some people harbor evil intentions [designs] was scientific signs claimed that listening to music can treat attention disorders, don\'t concentrate action training solve homework, inducing parents to do the training, this error best practices tend to delay the child\'s learning ability training timing correction.
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Similarly, when your children with learning difficulties or when attention is not focused, music and action learning and learning to be linked, but certainly not causality. Music and movement was mainly used to improve children\'s music and physical ability, rather than used to train and improve read and write and attention, so I said to my parents, if you want to improve your child\'s physical training action, if you want to improve the ability of children\'s music to play the piano. But if you want to resolve the read-write and attention problems, so don\'t do this kind of training, but are read-write and attention to training.
There are many children with reading difficulties, but in fact, parents to enhance the capacity, but training for music, and learning more and more far.
Learning is a function of cerebral cortex, training is to promote the learning of cortical functional adaptation of written and spoken, only this kind of professional training in order to really solve the problem with learning difficulties.

Transfers from the Beijing training school psychological education in primary and middle school students