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音乐可以使人大脑更好的工作

　　At the same time, people with certain developmental disorders, such as dyslexia , have a harder time hearing sounds amid the continuing loud confused noise a serious problem, for example, for students straining to hear the teacher in a noisy classroom.

　　Musical experience could therefore be a key therapy for children with dyslexia and similar language-related disorders, Kraus said.

　　In a similar vein, Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug has found that stroke patients who have lost the ability to speak can be trained to say hundreds of phrases by singing them first.

　　In research also presented today at the AAAS meeting Schlaug demonstrated the results of intensive musical therapy on patients with lesions on the left sides of their brains, those areas most associated with language.

　　Before the therapy, these stroke patients responded to questions with largely incoherent sounds and phrases. But after just a few minutes with therapists , who asked them to sing phrases and tap their hands to the rhythm, the patients could sing Happy Birthday, recite their addresses, and communicate if they were thirsty.

　　The underdeveloped systems on the right side of the brain that respond to music became enhanced and changed structures, Schlaug said.

　　Overall, Schlaug said, the experiments show that music might be an alternative medium for engaging parts of the brain that are otherwise not engaged.