‘We were motivated by the fact that kids who take music lessons are particularly good students, in school they actually do better than you would predict from their IQ, so obviously something else is going on,’ Professor Schellenberg told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference in Boston.

‘So we thought that personality might be the thing.

Asked if so-called helicopter parents were wasting their money sending their children to music lessons in the belief they could boost their school results, he said ‘yes’.

‘Clearly studying music changes the brain, but so does any learning. In fact, that is what learning is,’ he said.

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科学家称，为了提高孩子的学习成绩而把孩子送去学弹钢琴或拉小提琴，纯属浪费钱。

尽管有研究显示，学音乐的小孩更可能在班上名列前茅，但心理学家格伦•舍伦贝格指出，将这两者联系在一起有误导性。

事实上，更优秀的学习成绩可能是因为这些家庭背景更优越的小孩更聪明，更可能去学习乐器，而并非学音乐有助于提高他们的智力。

多伦多大学的舍伦贝格教授说：“音乐也许能让你有些改变，但是实际情形是，学音乐的小孩本就不同。”他补充说，父母的教育是对音乐才能最重要的影响因素。

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