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An Ear for Music ... and Chinese

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Authors of a Northwestern University study report that music training may help students of Mandarin and other Asian languages, which require use of pitch. We'll talk with one of the study's authors, Dr. Nina Kraus, who says that music training might even help children with language problems.

More on the Northwestern University study


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