{"id":432,"date":"2008-11-06T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-09-06T21:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:58:14","slug":"smart-like-a-metronome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/smart-like-a-metronome-432\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart like a Metronome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/metronome.jpg\" title=\"Metronome\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" \/>Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet and Ume\u00e5 University  (both in Sweden) have now demonstrated a correlation between general intelligence and the ability  to tap out a simple regular rhythm.<br \/>\nThey stress that the task subjects performed  had nothing to do with any musical rhythmic sense but simply measured the  capacity for rhythmic accuracy. Those who scored highest on intelligence tests  also had least variation in the regular rhythm they tapped out in the  experiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting as the task didn\u2019t involve any kind of  problem solving,\u201d says Fredrik Ull\u00e9n at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study  with Guy Madison at Ume\u00e5 University. \u201cIrregularity of timing probably arises at  a more fundamental biological level owing to a kind of noise in brain  activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Fredrik Ull\u00e9n, the results suggest that the  rhythmic accuracy in brain activity observable when the person just maintains a  steady beat is also important to the problem-solving capacity that is measured  with intelligence tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that accuracy at millisecond level in  neuronal activity is critical to information processing and learning processes,\u201d  he says.<\/p>\n<p>They also demonstrated a correlation between high intelligence,  a good ability to keep time, and a high volume of white matter in the parts of  the brain\u2019s frontal lobes involved in problem solving, planning and managing  time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll in all, this suggests that a factor of what we call  intelligence has a biological basis in the number of nerve fibres in the  prefrontal lobe and the stability of neuronal activity that this provides,\u201d says  Fredrik Ull\u00e9n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet and Ume\u00e5 University (both in Sweden) have now demonstrated a correlation between general intelligence and the ability to tap out a simple regular rhythm. 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