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　Learning to play a musical instrument helps keep people young, according to a new study. Researchers found that musicians aged 45 to 65 excel in memory and hearing speech in noise compared to non-musicians. While a growing body of research finds musical training gives students learning advantages in the classroom, a new study has found musical training can also offset some of the negative effects of growing old.

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　　 如今培養(yǎng)一個孩子需要花費大量的時間和金錢，在崇尚“十八般武藝”的時代，孩子們會一兩樣樂器不再是一個稀罕事。我們看過學習樂器可以使得人的智商提高的報道，但是樂器的魅力卻不僅限于讓你變得更聰明而已。根據(jù)一項新的發(fā)現(xiàn)，會樂器能使得人變得更年輕，倘若是音樂家的話，那效果更加明顯。據(jù)悉，科學家針對年齡段從45到65歲的“音樂家”展開調查，發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的聽力以及記憶力水平在同齡人之上。


　　 Study co-author Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University in the United States, said: “Lifelong musical training appears to confer advantages in at least two important functions known to decline with age - memory and the ability to hear speech in noise. The musicians who began playing an instrument at age nine or earlier and consistently played an instrument throughout their lives bested the non-musician group in all but visual working memory, where both groups showed nearly identical ability. Doctor Kraus said the experience of extracting meaningful sounds from a complex soundscape - and of remembering sound sequences enhances the development of auditory skills. She said: “The neural enhancements we see in musically-trained individuals are not just an amplifying or ‘volume knob’ effect.“Playing music engages their ability to extract relevant patterns, including the sound of their own instrument, harmonies and rhythms.”


　　 來自美國西北大學聽覺神經科學實驗室的專家Nina Kraus說：“在人生中長期接觸樂器可以使得我們變得更年輕，主要有原因有如下兩點，第一是增強我們的記憶力，還有一個就是增強我們在嘈雜環(huán)境中的聽力水平?！睋?jù)悉，科學家在針對音樂家與非音樂家的實驗中發(fā)現(xiàn)，從9歲甚至更早開始學習樂器的人（并且將這項技能堅持一生的人）與完全不碰樂器的人相比在“視覺工作記憶力”上的水平相當。視覺工作記憶（visual Working memory）指對非言語視覺信息的短時存儲，是視覺信息接受進一步處理前的暫時存儲。但是從事音樂的實驗者在“聽力工作記憶力”卻有令人羨慕的水平。


　　 Dr Kraus said music training “fine-tunes” the nervous system. She added: “Sound is the stock in trade of the musician in much the same way that a painter of portraits is keenly attuned to the visual attributes of the paint that will convey his or her subject.“If the materials that you work with are sound, then it is reasonable to suppose that all of your faculties involved with taking it in, holding it in memory and relating physically to it should be sharpened.