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Nurturing Musicality Is the act of being negligent towards a child’s desire to learn music child abuse, or is creating the environment to nurture that child’s desire just a big waste of time? It has been proposed that musical training … Continue reading →

Content Description Music Education in Adolescence- A Pathway to Entrepreneurial Ability? Cognitive and Academic Benefits of Instrumental Musical Training in Childhood and Adolescence Pleasurable Music Affects Reinforcement Learning and Reward-based Decision Making The Science of Music and Productivity Do Bad … Continue reading →

#13 The amount of progress in Caleb’s six years of therapy has been frustrating for everyone. But ultimately, says Alain Brunet, vice president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and director of the Traumatic Stress Laboratory at McGill … Continue reading →

Trust in Money When initially posed with the questions ‘what is money?’, ‘where does money come from?’, ‘how much money really is there?’, and ‘is money even real?’ it often seems that no one really has any answers. From a … Continue reading →

As told by Richard Davies of The New York Times in his article “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round“, he explored the “evolving paradox” of money as explained by Jacob Goldstein in his book “Money”. Goldstein explains that … Continue reading →

1.) Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00541/full It seems counterintuitive that listening to pleasurable music, rather than neural music, can have many positive affects on reinforcement learning and reward-based decision making in music therapy and education. Dopamine release plays a major role in the … Continue reading →

music education in schools music education being implemented into the core curriculum of schools the effect that music education has on students the positive effects of music education on a students well-being and success in school The implementation of music … Continue reading →