Comparison in terms of brain development between those kids who learn music and those who do not learn music

In terms of brain development, studies and scientific evidences have found out that kids who learn music could gain the following benefits:

Develops the left side of the brain which involves in language processing and at the same time wiring the brain circuits in specific ways.

Provides brain workout and improves memory and general intelligence, such as literacy, verbal memory, thinking process, mathematics, IQ, emotional development and other academic skills.

Stimulates brain growth throughout early childhood period.

Improves language ability, including vocabulary, expressiveness and ease of communication.

Helps the automatic processing in the brainstem, which is the lower part of the brain that joins onto the spinal cord to have a better control for many vital functions, such as heartbeat, breathing and responses to complex sounds.

Kids who begin to learn musical instrument(s) before the age of seven are able to enhance neural pathways by increasing the thickness of neural bridge that connects the left and right brain hemisphere.