Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?
That's the question asked by researchers conducting a three-year study sponsored by the Dana Foundation, one of the leading funders of brain science, immunology and arts education. Their report titled Learning, Arts and the Brain provides evidence that "children motivated in the arts develop attention skills and strategies for memory retrieval that also to other apply to other subject areas."
Dana shares the results of this important research and more on their useful website.
Download a pdf version of the full report (2 mb).
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