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Visual memory in musicians and non-musicians [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Many investigations have reported structural, functional, and cognitive changes in the brains of musicians, which occur as a result of many years of musical practice. We aimed to investigate if intensive, long-term musical practice is associated with improved visual memory ability.
Rodrigues, Ana Carolina   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Exploring Preferences for a Digital Single‐Session Intervention for Adolescent Siblings of Youth With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of Metacognition in Musicians: Implication for Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Recent research on musical practice has focused on metacognition and the strategies that musicians adopt in their preparations for performance. This study explored the development of metacognition and performance planning strategies in musicians from ...
Hallam, Susan
core   +2 more sources

Investigating the effect of long-term musical experience on the auditory processing skills of young Maltese adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Learning and practising a musical instrument has recently been thought to ‘train’ the brain into processing sound in a more refined manner.As a result, musicians experiencing consistent exposure to musical practice have been suspected to have ...
Calleja, Nadine, Pace, Martha
core   +1 more source

Autodidacticism and Music: Do Self-Taught Musicians Exhibit the Same Auditory Processing Advantages as Formally Trained Musicians?

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
Multiple studies have demonstrated that musicians have enhanced auditory processing abilities compared to non-musicians. In these studies, musicians are usually defined as having received some sort of formal music training. One issue with this definition
Benjamin Rich Zendel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medial olivocochlear suppression in musicians versus non-musicians [PDF]

open access: yesPhysiology International, 2019
The medial olivocochlear efferent (MOCE) branch synapses with outer hair cells (OHCs), and the efferent pathway can be activated via a contralateral acoustic stimulus (CAS). The activation of MOCE can change OHC motile responses and convert signals that are capable of controlling the sensitivity of the peripheral hearing system in a frequency-specific ...
Bulut, E   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
wiley   +1 more source

Community Structure in Jazz

open access: yes, 2003
Using a database of jazz recordings we study the collaboration network of jazz musicians. We define the network at two different levels. First we study the collaboration network between individuals, where two musicians are connected if they have played ...
Danon, Leon, Gleiser, Pablo
core   +1 more source

Musicians’ pursuit of expertise-related goals is characterised by strategic regulation of functional and counterproductive affect

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
BackgroundEmotion regulation is an important part of effective goal pursuit. Functional accounts of emotion regulation suggest that the attainment of challenging goals may be supported by regulating emotions which promote utilitarian over hedonic ...
Gerard Breaden Madden   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic, perceptual, and cognitive factors underlying musicians' benefits in noise-degraded speech perception.

open access: yesHearing Research, 2019
Previous studies have reported better speech-in-noise (SIN) recognition in musicians relative to nonmusicians while others have failed to observe this "musician SIN advantage." Here, we aimed to clarify equivocal findings and determine the most relevant ...
Jessica Yoo, G. Bidelman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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