受过音乐训练的人更会背单词?

Even if you haven’t touched a piano in years, if you suffered through music lessons as a kid you may have benefited from those lessons in ways you wouldn’t expect. When you train on a musical instrument your brain is stimulated and changes and develops as a result. Because the parts of the brain are interconnected this stimulation doesn’t affect musical ability only.

就算你多年没碰过钢琴了，只要你小时候耐住性子上过音乐课，你可能就会从中受益，特别是在一些你不曾想到过的方面。当你练习乐器的时候，你的大脑随刺激而改变、发育。因为，大脑的各个部分都是相联系的，所以这些刺激不仅会影响你的音乐方面的能力。

Psychologists have discovered that the stimulation musical training enacts on the left temporal region of your brain enhances verbal memory. People with musical training are significantly better at recalling words from a list as well as bettter learning new words. What’s more, the longer the duration of musical training, the better the verbal memory.

心理学家发现，由音乐方面的训练带来的刺激会作用于左侧大脑颞区，这一过程会加强人的语言记忆能力。接受过音乐方面训练的人更善于背诵词汇表，也更善于学新单词。此外，接受音乐方面的训练的时间越长，人的语言记忆力就越强。

So while children who study music for two years demonstrate better verbal memory than children who have not studied music, children who continue to study music continue to improve their verbal memory. The good news for those of us who trained on musical instruments but quit at some point is that we don’t seem to lose theverbal benefits we gain from this training.

学过2年音乐的孩子会比没学过音乐的孩子表现出更强的语言记忆力，而继续学习，语言记忆力还会不断提高。对于那些学过乐器，但是之后在中途放弃的人来说，也有一个好消息。那就是，我们从学乐器的过程中得到的一处似乎并不会丢掉。

Scientists are particularly interested in what this suggests about the interconnectedness of the brain and thus the predictability of the effects of stimulation to a brain area on cognitive functions located in that area. Further research may lead to developments in cognitive rehabilitation for people with brain injuries. For example, in order to rebuild verbal memory in patients with injury to that part of the brain, doctors may prescribe music lessons.

科学家们对从这个现象中表现出来的大脑各部分的联系性很感兴趣，因为（通过研究这个课题)，对大脑某一部分进行刺激时，刺激能该部分上的认知功能会产生什么影响便可以预测了。进一步的研究可能会在认知能力修复方面有所突破，给那些脑部受伤的人带来福音。比如，有些患者脑部管理认知能力的部分有损害，若想重塑他们的语言记忆力，医生们可以让他们去参加音乐课。

Notes:

enact:指定，通过，
predictability:可预言
rehabilitation:康复
prescribe:开（处方）