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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 This study compared 30 older musicians and 30 age-matched non-musicians to investigate the association between lifelong musical instrument training and age-related cognitive decline and brain atrophy (musicians: mean age 70.8 years, musical experience 52.
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Symptoms of respiratory illness in wind players and their relationship to instrument hygiene [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPlaying a wind instrument has been proposed as a potential trigger of respiratory illness if harmful microorganisms residing in the instrument are repeatedly inhaled.
Gerard Breaden Madden +5 more
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Botulinum Toxin Treatment in Musician’s Dystonia: Long-Term-Effects and Influencing Factors [PDF]
ToxinsMusician’s Dystonia (MD) is a task-specific movement disorder that occurs while playing an instrument and severely limits a musician’s ability to perform.
Till-Alexander Plinkert +5 more
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Musical expertise shapes visual-melodic memory integration
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Music can act as a mnemonic device that can elicit multiple memories. How musical and non-musical information integrate into complex cross-modal memory representations has however rarely been investigated.
Martina Hoffmann +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionEmotion regulation is an important part of optimising performance and successful goal pursuit in practice-based tasks such as making music.
Gerard Breaden Madden +3 more
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Musical Expertise and Executive Functions in Experienced Musicians
Brain Sciences, 2023 Extensive music practice has been suggested to enhance the development of cognitive abilities over and above musical expertise. Executive functions (EFs) have been particularly investigated, given their generalizability across different domains and their
Edoardo Passarotto +3 more
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Культура і мистецтво у сучасному світі, 2023 The aim of this article as a research paper is to present the initial approach of an action research project undertaken digitally between the International School of Musicians and Derwent Harp School, a collaboration between two neighbouring countries ...
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Expertise-Related Differences in Cyclic Motion Patterns in Drummers: A Kinematic Analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 BackgroundAt present only little information is available concerning the acquisition of skilled movements in musicians. Although optimally a longitudinal study of changing movement patterns during the process of increasing expertise is required, long ...
Eckart Altenmüller +2 more
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Characterizing the temporal discrimination threshold in musician’s dystonia
Scientific Reports, 2022 The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) has been established as a biomarker of impaired temporal processing and endophenotype in various forms of focal dystonia patients, such as cervical dystonia, writer’s cramp or blepharospasm.
Friederike Borngräber +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Research demonstrates that both music-making and music listening have an ability to modulate autonomic nervous system activity. The majority of studies have highlighted acute autonomic changes occurring during or immediately following a single session of
J. Matt McCrary +2 more
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