Benefits Of Introducing Music To Children's Cognitive Capabilities

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JAKARTA - Cognitive is a brain's ability that involves the process of thinking, learning, and understanding. Cognitive abilities must be honed from childhood.

For parents, in honing their child's cognitive abilities, there are several things that can be done. One of them is by introducing music.

Through music, children can get a stimulus that can help their brain develop. To get this, parents can listen to music with their children, such as watching videos on YouTube together.

"Now it's getting more and more helped through technology. For example, we can stimulus children through music, through storytelling, we can watch YouTube together and parents ask them to repeat what they hear," said Clinical Psychologist, Widyaningrum Analysis, during a press conference. Parentalk, in Cipete, Jakarta, on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.

"The closeness of parents to children stimulated by music, by visual and motor can increase the child's left brain and right brain to learn," he added.

Analysis reveals that children who have been stimulated by music will actively experience a cognitive increase of up to 34 percent, compared to those who study computers.

"One of the latest studies in UK, children who are well stimulated by music actively, not passively, so for example learning music, 34 percent increase their cognitive function more than children who study computers," he explained.

Not only that, the analysis says that actively playing music, children not only acquire musical intelligence. They will also have higher cognitive abilities, supported by music.

"Learning to play the piano from the age of 4 years), it's not just musical intelligence, but his ability to think cognitively can also be supported through music," concluded the Analysis.