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Math, Music, and The Brain

Two Guys on Your Head

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Is Learning Music a Thing?

There is very little evidence that if you learn music easily, because of that, you also learn mathematics easily, or vice versa. Music involves all sorts of different skills. There's the ability to read music, which may or may not be done in the context of music theory underlying what it is that you're reading. So there's an awful lot going on in the music side. And then with math, we have everything from simple calculation and arithmetic to geometry to a calculus, differential equationsdand all sorts of higher branches of that. skill in one one of those in particular doesn't necessarily make you excellent in all these other either.

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