Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.

PLoS One · 2008 · PMC2570220 · PMID 18958177

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Training duration also predicted some of the distant outcomes: Vocabulary (partial r 2 = .09, p = .02) and Raven's Advanced PM, although only at a near-significant level (partial r 2 = .06, p = .06).

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