fiddlerpianist wrote:
A Conversation With Aniruddh D. Patel: Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind (link)In particular, this section grabbed my attention:
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I published a paper in 1998 that really surprised people. It was the first imaging study showing what happens when the brain processes musical grammar as compared with what happens when it processes language. From what we learned, this was occurring in an overlapping way within the brain. And this was a clue that the neurobiology of music could give us a new path to access and perhaps even heal some language disabilities.
I have often wondered in what ways music has shaped my mental development. I wonder if it's plausible that it helped me overcome some of my challenges with language?
I don't really buy into all that crap about how "music makes you smarter." Didn't help me one bit! lol
I will say this, though. I've always felt that music had more communicative power than any mathematical advantage it might ever offer. I think of music as immediately following speech as a way of learned communication.
Further, it took my son a longer-than-average time to begin talking and building a vocabulary, possibly due to rampant ear infections. He's almost 3 and still has a tendency to mumble or babble, but he by no mains is grossly impaired in his speech--I have no fears of him catching up. His best articulated communication, however, happens while he is singing. His words, if he knows the song well, are PERFECT. I've even taught him to sing "Allouette" and "Yellow Submarine," the former being a French tune that I doubt he even understands the meaning of, and his reproduction of consonant and vowel sounds are near perfect.
You could try learning songs and singing. Perhaps also you could learn poetry. I'd even suggest get a hold of some Shakespeare and "rap" his sonnets or something.
01 Jun 2010, 2:17 pm
