Neurosmith Music Blocks children can create their own musical masterpieces simply by playing with blocks!

Music Blocks children can create their own musical masterpieces simply by playing with blocks! Place the blocks at random or carefully compose music according to the shapes on the sides of the blocks and their colors. Children are amazed and delighted with the music they are able to create by themselves! And, parents know they are giving their children the benefits of music that will last for years to come.

Children love making music and a number of recent studies are revealing that music can enhance your child’s developing mind. Exposure to music training at an early age can have long-term enhancements in your child’s ability to perform spatial-temporal tasks.
Why is this important? Spatial reasoning is what enables your child to perceive the visual world, transform mental images of physical objects, and recognize variations of objects. We use this spatial reasoning in math, geometry, physics, chess, and much more! Music seems to exercise the brain for these higher brain functions, shaping and making it more receptive to learning spatial tasks.
Music Blocks gives your child the opportunity to explore the world of music by playing with traditional blocks. Your child will discover the underlying structure of music and learn the way rhythms, patterns and melodies are formed.

Did You Know?

• The College Entrance Examination Board reported in 1996 that students with experience in musical performance scored 51 points higher on the verbal portion of the SAT and 39 points higher on the math section than the national average. (1)

• Your heart rate, skin temperature, and blood pressure will raise or lower depending upon the music you are listening to. (2)

• The ear is the first organ to develop in the embryo, and is fully functional by 18 weeks. (3)

• The planum temporale, an area of the brain which seems to be associated with language processing, is larger in musicians. (4)

• The right hemisphere of the brain appears to be dominant in the perception of music, the analysis of geometric and visual space, and the production of dreams during REM sleep. (5)

• Absolute pitch (the ability to match a personality to each sound) is found in 95 percent of children who started music study at age 4 or younger, but only among 5 percent of those who began between the ages of 12 and 14.

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