Course: Music and Intelligence: Can Music Make You Smarter?

We learned earlier that there are various intelligence tests. This includes the Stanford-Binet test, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the Raven’s Progressive Matrices test, and the Culture Fair Intelligence …

Let’s have a go at a few questions from an intelligence test. The questions below are an adaptation of some of the questions you may find in (perhaps) the most …

After the first pioneering attempts by Sir Francis Galton, the first real attempt to measure intelligence was the work of the French scientist Alfred Binet. In this attempt, we see …

Intelligence is a topic that has always fascinated psychologists and scientists in general. Regardless of the definition of intelligence you have in mind, we can probably all agree that intelligence …

So what is intelligence? After so many years of research and studies on intelligence, is there a good and precise definition of intelligence that scientists agree upon? Well, yes and …

Let’s hear from the pros! Here we have the chance to interview another young and very talented scientist that works at the Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario …

There is a limit to the studies that are investigating musicians versus non-musicians. The limit is that this type of research gathers merely correlational data, and it isn’t possible to …

Several studies have investigated whether musicians are more intelligent than non-musicians, in particular when they are both young. The results of these studies seem to suggest that young musicians are …

Let’s put everything on the table like in a crime scene. We have Nature, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, that suggests that by listening to …

Let’s get more insights from another expert in the field. Professor Elvira Brattico is a neuroscientist who will help us unpack the relationship between music and intelligence from the point …

It’s been a long journey on the investigations that try to understand whether learning to play a musical instrument or music training in general is good for your intelligence and …

We saw that experiments comparing the intelligence of musicians and nonmusicians show an advantage of the first in comparison to the latter, an advantage that is clearer at small ages. …

We discussed the difference between correlational studies and true experiments. Let’s take this opportunity to look deeply into one example of a true experiment, one that was carried out by …

We saw that young musicians tend to be more intelligent than young non-musicians. Although we can’t conclude that music training boosts intelligence, the results are indeed interesting. And there is …

Can music make you perform better? In this video, we’ll dig more into how music in general affects us. Let’s go through the research that investigates the effects of music …