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1. I hear people who describe their children's academia improved once they began playing an instrument or singing. Could this be the result of increased attention and coherence as a result of the music? (150 word count or less)

2. The nativistic approach believes that language may be an inborn intelligence, in humans. Since there are two types of attention; automatic and controlled, the latter requiring consciousness the prior does not, does that contradict the Carnegie theory of attention requiring coherence? (150 word count or less)

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The results of temporal coherence and auditory streaming is analyzed.

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No problem.I hear people who describe their children's academia improved once they began playing an instrument or singing. Could this be the result of increased attention and coherence as a result of the music? (150 word count or less)

There is no question that a relation exists between learning music and an increase child's verbal skills. Music helps improve language-related skills. Music training enhances "phonemic awareness" according to Foregeard, et al. This kind of awareness is based on the recognition of the smallest units of verbal sound that, taken together, make up a word. Since music education breaks down a piece of music into individual notes, this enhances the awareness of parts to the whole. It is easily transferred to letters, words and sentences. It should be noted that learning rhythmic patters did not have any effect on reading or any other area of academics.

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