While we know that Einstein grew up in a household were music was highly valued, and as a child and adult he dearly loved playing the violin and the piano, the exact correlation between practicing and learning a musical instrument and an uptick in intelligence was relatively unknown until recently.

Researchers at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital published the findings of their study in September of 2015. They set out to answer questions about the differences between the cognitive function of children with years of musical training, and children who have not taken any music lessons.