{"id":222074,"date":"2025-09-18T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/music-training-can-help-the-brain-focus-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:39:31","slug":"music-training-can-help-the-brain-focus-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/music-training-can-help-the-brain-focus-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Music training can help the brain focus, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/music-training-can-help-the-brain-focus-study-shows3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musical people find it easier to focus their attention on the right sounds in noisy environments.<\/p>\n<p>This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz0510\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>. The results suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/music+training\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">music training<\/a> can be used to sharpen <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/attention\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">attention<\/a> and cognition.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to focus on a conversation in a room full of noise is a complex task for the brain. In the new study, researchers have investigated how music training affects the brain\u2019s ability to focus attention on specific sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical people find it easier to focus their attention on the right sounds in noisy environments. This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Science Advances. The results suggest that music training can be used to sharpen attention and cognition. Being able to focus on a conversation in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}