How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition--From the Dana Foundation

If there were a surefire way to improve your brain, would you try it? Read this fascinating new article from the Dana Foundations's current online issue of Cerebrum.

Does education in the arts transfer to seemingly unrelated cognitive abilities? Researchers are finding evidence that it does. Michael Posner argues that when children find an art form that sustains their interest, the subsequent strengthening of their brains' attention networks can improve cognition more broadly.

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