Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function

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Bilingualism and cognition (2014, background): “Music lessons also enhance IQ (Moreno et al., 2011; Schellenberg, 2005; Schellenberg & Weiss, 2013).”
Links between early rhythm skills, musical training, and phonological awareness (2013, positive): “Moreno et al. (2009) found that twice-weekly musical lessons, but not painting lessons, over a 6-month period was associated with enhanced word reading in 8-year-old children. Costa-Giomi (1997) reported that 2 years of piano instruction significantly improved verbal abilities, broadly defined, of 1”
Learning, attentional control and action video games (2012, background): “In children and older adults where executive skills are somewhat weak, several promising alternatives have emerged, including playing a musical instrument [45] or computer-based brain training [40,46].”
Does music training enhance working memory performance? Findings from a quasi-experimental longitudinal study (2014, background): “While there is evidence that music lessons can enhance cognitive performance even at the level of general intelligence (Schellenberg, 2004, 2006, 2011), the majority of findings point to more specific enhancement of cognitive processing in response to instrumental music training (Gardiner, Fox, & Je”