The Lullaby Effect

Dr Anita Collins

Dr Anita Collins is an award-winning educator, researcher and writer in the field of brain development and music learning. She is internationally recognized for her unique work in translating the scientific research of neuroscientists and psychologists to the everyday parent, teacher and student. In 2014 Anita wrote one of the most watched TED Education films ever made, How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain, which lead to an invitation to speak at TEDxCanberra later that year. Anita regularly presents her research on television, radio, through her scholarly and popular writings and is a sought after presenter around the world. Anita has spent the last two years interviewing over 100 researchers around the world about their ground-breaking research into brain development and music. In this book she shares with you both the fascinating research she learned about and her own experience of raising her daughter with this research in mind.

• Music
• babies
• brain development
• neuroscience
• parenting
• psychology
• singing