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Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians
Music & Science, 2022 Mental imagery plays an important role in various contexts of life, involving cognitive resources such as memory, learning, spatial representation, and reasoning.
Francesca Talamini +4 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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The impact of early musical training on striatal functional connectivity
NeuroImage, 2021 Evidence from language, visual and sensorimotor learning suggests that training early in life is more effective. The present work explores the hypothesis that learning during sensitive periods involves distinct brain networks in addition to those ...
F.T. van Vugt +4 more
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Dispositional and performance-specific music performance anxiety in young amateur musicians
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionResearch on Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) among amateur musicians is of great interest due to inconsistent results in literature. In addition, amateur music represents an important part of musical culture in Germany.
Claudia Spahn +4 more
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Hearing Research, 2020 Musicians are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged noise exposure, but they may also be at risk of early sub-clinical hearing damage, such as cochlear synaptopathy.
Samuel Couth +7 more
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Perceptions and predictions of expertise in advanced musical learners [PDF]
, 2010 The aim of this article was to compare musicians' views on (a) the importance of musical skills and (b) the nature of expertise. Data were obtained from a specially devised web-based questionnaire completed by advanced musicians representing four musical
Creech, Andrea +10 more
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Clinical investigations of receptive and expressive musical functions after stroke
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 There is a long tradition of investigating various disorders of musical abilities after stroke. These impairments, associated with acquired amusia, can be highly selective, affecting only music perception (i.e., receptive abilities/functions) or ...
Ken eRosslau +8 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Musician’s dystonia (MD) is a task-specific movement disorder that causes loss of voluntary motor control while playing the instrument. A subgroup of patients displays the so-called sensory trick: alteration of somatosensory input, e.g.
Jakobine ePaulig +4 more
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Neural Plasticity in a French Horn Player with Bilateral Amelia
Neural Plasticity, 2021 Precise control of movement and timing play a key role in musical performance. This motor skill requires coordination across multiple joints, muscles, and limbs, which is acquired through extensive musical training from childhood on.
Daniel S. Scholz +4 more
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