A New Study Confirms It: Music Doesn't Make Your Children Smarter
They followed 29 parents and their 4-year-old children, tested the children and randomly assigned each of them to one of 2 classes: one with music training and one with visual arts. Both classes were taught by the same teacher (Mehr himself) to get rid of the effect of different teachers, and they tested the children on cognition, vocabulary, mathematics and special tasks: