時差N小時:音樂和非文字記憶 Music and Verbal Memory

Even if you haven't touched a piano in years, if yousuffered through music lessons as a kid you mayhave benefited from those lessons in ways youwouldn't expect.

即使你已經很久沒有彈鋼琴，但只要你小時候學過鋼琴，你就能在各個意想不到的方面受益于這些鋼琴課。

When you train on a musical instrument your brainis stimulated and changes and develops as a result.

當你在訓練一種樂器時，大腦受到刺激而變化生長。

Because the parts of the brain are interconnectedthis stimulation doesn't affect musical ability only.

由于大腦的各個部分是相互連接的，這種刺激不會只影響到音樂能力。

Psychologists have discovered that the stimulation musical training enacts on the lefttemporal region of your brain enhances verbal memory.

心理學家還發(fā)現(xiàn)，這種音樂刺激訓練擔當大腦的左顳區(qū)可以提高非文字記憶。

People with musical training are significantly better at recalling words from a list and learningnew words.

接受過音樂訓練的人能夠更容易記住單詞，學習新的單詞也更容易。

What's more, the longer the duration of musical training, the better the verbal memory.

更重要的是，音樂訓練的時間越久，非文字記憶能力越強。

So while children who study music for two years demonstrate better verbal memory thanchildren who have not studied music, children who continue to study music continue to improvetheir verbal memory.

因此，學過兩年音樂的孩子，他們的非文字記憶比沒學過音樂的孩子要強得多，而繼續(xù)學習音樂孩子的記憶會隨之提高。

The good news for those of us who trained on musicalinstruments but quit at some point is thatwe don't seem to lose the verbal benefits we gain from this training.

有個好消息，對于那些學過樂器后來又放棄的同學，你們并不會失去這種訓練的好處。

Scientists are particularly interested in what this suggests about the interconnectedness ofthebrain and thus the predictability of the effects of stimulation to a brain area on cognitivefunctions located in that area.

科學家們對大腦的這種相互連接特別感興趣，從而預測音樂刺激對大腦認知能力的影響就在這個區(qū)域。

Further research may lead to developments in cognitive rehabilitation for people with braininjuries.

進一步的研究可能導向對腦損傷病人在認知康復的發(fā)展。

For example, in order to rebuild verbal memory in patients with injury tothat part of the brain,doctors may prescribe music lessons.

例如，為了重建病人大腦受損的非文字記憶部分，醫(yī)生也許會開設音樂課。