I ran across this great article on how important it is to expose children (or anyone for that matter) to music. If you learn early in life to play a musical instrument, you will have better reading and math skills, among others. Just listening to music improves cognitive functions.
Music Neuroscience is relatively a new science (2000), but they are discovering all sorts of interesting and important things about music and what we all already knew: Music Rocks!!
Here’s the link to the article: