新研究发现：孩子学乐器能大大提升语言能力_时事

新研究发现：孩子学乐器能大大提升语言能力

The classes lasted for six months, after which the children were tested on their ability to discriminate words based on differences in tone, consonants, or vowels.

上了六个月的课以后，研究人员就辨别字的声调、声母和韵母的能力对幼童进行了测试。

The test results showed that the children who had taken piano lessons performed significantly better at discriminating between words that differ by a single consonant, when compared against the children who took extra reading lessons.

测试结果显示，上过钢琴课的孩子在辨别声母不同的汉字上明显优于上过阅读课的孩子。

Compared to the control group, both the music learners and the extra reading group did better in terms of discriminating words based on vowel differences.

与此同时，学音乐的孩子和上额外阅读课的孩子在辨别韵母不同的汉字上都优于对照组的孩子。

To get a sense of why these differences might be occurring, the researchers measured the children's brain activity via electroencephalography (EEG) and found the piano group exhibited greater sensitivity to tonal changes when tones were played to them at different pitches.

为了弄清这些差异产生的原因，研究人员通过脑电图观测了孩子的脑活动，发现在收听抑扬顿挫的朗读时，钢琴组的孩子对声调变化更敏感。

The thinking goes, the exposure to music lessons helped develop this tonal sensitivity, which in part explains their better verbal word discrimination.