Early musical training benefits to non-musical cognitive ability associated with the Gestalt principles [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Musical training has been evidenced to facilitate music perception, which refers to the consistencies, boundaries, and segmentations in pieces of music that are associated with the Gestalt principles.
Jiancheng Hou +4 more
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Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training. [PDF]
J Neurophysiol, 2021 We show that music-selective neural populations are clearly present in people without musical training, demonstrating that they are a fundamental and widespread property of the human brain. Additionally, we show music-selective neural populations respond strongly to music from unfamiliar genres as well as music with rhythm but little pitch information,
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Musical Training and Brain Volume in Older Adults [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Musical practice, including musical training and musical performance, has been found to benefit cognitive function in older adults. Less is known about the role of musical experiences on brain structure in older adults.
Laura Chaddock-Heyman +5 more
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Musical Training in the Development of Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Music not only regulates mood but also promotes the development and maintenance of empathy and social understanding. Since empathy is crucial for well-being and indispensable in social life, it is necessary to develop strategies to improve empathy and ...
Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu, Xuejing Lu, Xuejing Lu
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Boosting executive function in children aged 3–12 through musical training: a three-level meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyFor an extended period, musical training has been recognized as a key enhancer of children’s development, particularly affecting executive functions.
Yumeng Cai, Dan Kang, Xiwu Xu
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Music Modulates Cognitive Flexibility? An Investigation of the Benefits of Musical Training on Markers of Cognitive Flexibility [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Cognitive flexibility enables the rapid change in goals humans want to attain in everyday life as well as in professional contexts, e.g., as musicians. In the laboratory, cognitive flexibility is usually assessed using the task-switching paradigm.
Miriam Gade, Kathrin Schlemmer
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Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsMusical training has been reported to be associated with enhanced neural processing of sounds, as measured via the frequency following response (FFR), implying the potential for human subcortical neural plasticity.
Kelly L. Whiteford +25 more
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The "silent" imprint of musical training. [PDF]
Hum Brain Mapp, 2016 AbstractPlaying a musical instrument at a professional level is a complex multimodal task requiring information integration between different brain regions supporting auditory, somatosensory, motor, and cognitive functions. These kinds of task‐specific activations are known to have a profound influence on both the functional and structural architecture
Klein C +4 more
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Music and Lyrics: Musical Training for Aural Rehabilitation. [PDF]
Clin Exp Otorhinolaryngol, 2021 Kim Y, Kang WS.
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Relationship between the average slope in the active commuting to and from school and fitness in adolescents: the mediator role of fatness [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Active commuting to and from school (ACS) has been recognized as a potential tool to improve physical fitness. Thus, this study aims to test the relationships between the average slope in the ACS and physical fitness, as well as to verify the mediator ...
Pedro Antonio Sánchez Miguel +4 more
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