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Saba Yousefi - Violin
MMus (Hons.), BMus (Hons.)
Saba is both a passionate performer and teacher, she believes in the power of music to develop creativity, self -esteem, and brain development.
Saba has years of teaching experience providing private violin instruction to students of all ages and levels. Beginner, Amateur, and Advanced Violin lessons are offered.
To book your free trial lesson contact Saba.
Why Study Music?
One exciting result of musicians’ increased cognitive skills may be increased creativity. Creativity generally involves generating novel and valuable ideas, and the music itself offers plenty of avenues for expression. But at least one recent study has shown that musicians show more extraordinary creative originality even outside of music. Moreover, having the cognitive flexibility to entertain parallel lines of thought and new perspectives seems to help musicians inside and outside their field.
There is also evidence that music training can benefit more general cognitive functions. One such area that scientists have investigated is memory. Memory can apply to any domain – auditory, spatial, visual – and studies of musicians’ abilities show a general cognitive benefit to memory. This benefit is most apparent in the acoustic domain. Musicians have a distinct advantage when it comes to remembering lists of words or numbers. Processing sounds faster and more accurately seems to lead to a more precise memory for things that can be encoded as sounds.
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Music and language share many similarities across various levels of analysis, including the form they take, the goals of each, and their individual elements. While there are differences, this structural overlap can help explain the connections between language and music. For example, one of the most essential shared characteristics between music and language is rhythm. Even though we don’t usually think of language as having a rhythm, the speech itself can have a series of strong and weak beats — as anyone familiar with poetry can tell you.
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Over the past twenty years, numerous psychological and neuroscientific studies have investigated the link between music and the mind. The upshot? Musicians have better cognitive skills than their nonmusician counterparts across multiple intelligence domains. Studies have demonstrated that musical training is associated with higher performance in areas as diverse as reading, spatial ability, memory, perception, and executive function. These changes can be seen in the brain, with musicians showing bigger brain size, connectivity, and greater neural efficiency.
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