The research,

　　published in the online edition of the journal Brain, showed that after one year of musical training, children did better in a memory test than those who did not take music classes.

　　“The research tells us that if you take music lessons your brain is getting wired up differently，” Laurel Trainor, professor of psychology at McMaster University, said.

　　“This is the first study to show that brain responses in young,

　　musically

　　trained

　　and

　　untrained

　　children

　　change differently over the course of a year，” said Trainor.

　　Over a year they took four measurements in two groups of children aged between four and six — those taking music lessons and those taking no musical training outside school — and found developmental changes over periods as short as four months.

　　The children completed a music test in which they were asked

　　to

　　discriminate

　　between

　　harmonies,

　　rhythms

　　and melodies (旋律), and a memory test in which they had to listen to a series of numbers, remember them and repeat them back.

　　Trainor said while previous studies have shown that older children given drama (戏剧) and painting lessons had greater improvements in IQ scores than children who didn't; children given music lessons did better than those given drama.This is the

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