it's not unreasonable to think that serious music training might hone skills of relevance to non-musical cognition.
For instance, students of music are required to
• focus attention for long periods of time
• decode a complex symbolic system (musical notation)
• translate the code into precise motor patterns
• recognize patterns of sound across time
• discriminate differences in pitch
• learn rules of pattern formation
• memorize long passages of music
• track and reproduce rhythms
• understand ratios and fractions (e.g., a quarter note is half as long as a half note)
• improvise within a set of musical rules.
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