{"id":226649,"date":"2025-12-07T04:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/children-with-better-musical-skills-may-benefit-from-a-prolonged-window-of-brain-plasticity"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:13:53","slug":"children-with-better-musical-skills-may-benefit-from-a-prolonged-window-of-brain-plasticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/children-with-better-musical-skills-may-benefit-from-a-prolonged-window-of-brain-plasticity","title":{"rendered":"Children with better musical skills may benefit from a prolonged window of brain plasticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/children-with-better-musical-skills-may-benefit-from-a-prolonged-window-of-brain-plasticity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children who excel at keeping the beat may possess brains that mature more slowly, extending their capacity for learning. A new longitudinal twin study indicates that this prolonged development is shaped by both genetic predispositions and musical engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children who excel at keeping the beat may possess brains that mature more slowly, extending their capacity for learning. A new longitudinal twin study indicates that this prolonged development is shaped by both genetic predispositions and musical engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226649","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=226649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}