Music lessons help young child memories: study
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Parents who spend time and money to  teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study  shows young children who take music lessons have better  memories than their nonmusical peers.
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Adults thinking back rarely can remember anything before preshool, but those bright infant eyes staring back at mommy and daddy really are forming memories. It's just that babies also forget. In fact, babies' rate of forgetting is even faster than that of adults, Patricia J. Bauer of Duke University said Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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âMusic4 Storyâ demonstrated the power of music to depict characters, evoke settings and create moods.
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Researchers may have found the reason why children who go to bed too late often fare badly at school: lack of sleep appears to disrupt functioning of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that formulates new memories.
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Listening to music in the early stages after a stroke can improve a patient's recovery, research suggests.
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Young children get by with the help of their friends, and some of the most helpful may be imaginary, suggests a new study that challenges the traditional view that well-adjusted kids give up pretend pals after preschool.
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Children's brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That's the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of deaf Nicaraguan children as they created their own sign language and then continuously tinkered it with each new group of signers.
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NEW YORK  - The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.
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Children who were enrolled in a preschool project in 1962 tend to be more productive citizens in their 40s than children who were not enrolled.
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Children will be offered cooking lessons to improve their kitchen skills and to encourage a better diet.
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NEW YORK  - Preschoolers' odds of having nightmares may be related to their temperament as infants, which may be noticed as early as 5 months old, new research suggests.
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Children read better when taught with a new system of phonics that builds on their own diction, researchers say.
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NEW YORK  - Approximately 65 percent of  young children befriend imaginary companions, and nearly  one-third continue to play with them through age 7, new  research shows.
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Children who had never been taught addition or subtraction were able to solve approximate math problems involving large numbers, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that reveals a new understanding of children's innate math ability.
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âLaura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas,â writes Anne Eisenberg (New York Times) âhas four children [and] commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology. During the commute, she plugs an iPod into her car radio to review lectures, and checks visuals during lunch.â And Marthoâs hardly alone in her studious use of iPod. Indeed, she joins an increasing number of students who take advantage of the âlecture-captureâ systems more and universities have installed to bring the art of lecture notes into the 21st century.
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If you&#39;re a tea toddler, there&#39;s good news, new research suggests green or black tea could help improve your memory and possibly protect against Alzheimerâs disease.
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Children know best. They see aging for what it is: