ReviewFrontiers in psychology2013
Moderating variables of music training-induced neuroplasticity: a review and discussion.
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- Can you beat the music? Validation of a gamified rhythmic training in children with ADHD.Behavior research methods · 2025Trial
- Patterns and Predictors of Children's Musical Engagement From an Aotearoa NZ Longitudinal Cohort.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2026Article
- Alterations in brain structure-function coupling associated with musical training.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Shared flow and emotional synchrony through group instrumental improvisation: a feasibility study of music-based social connection.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Attention, working memory, and inhibitory control in aging: Comparing amateur singers, instrumentalists, and active controls.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Article
- Temporal resolution and pitch discrimination in music education: novel data in children.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- Unravelling individual rhythmic abilities using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Moderate associations betweenHeliyon · 2023Article
- Psychosocial and auditory factors that influence successful music-based auditory training in pediatric cochlear implant recipients.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Differences in motor inhibition in young and older musicians and non-musicians at rest.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Genetic factors and shared environment contribute equally to objective singing ability.iScience · 2022Article
- Amateur singing benefits speech perception in aging under certain conditions of practice: behavioural and neurobiological mechanisms.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- It Takes Two: Interpersonal Neural Synchrony Is Increased after Musical Interaction.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- The Musical Abilities, Pleiotropy, Language, and Environment (MAPLE) Framework for Understanding Musicality-Language Links Across the Lifespan.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Review
- The effect of musicality on language recovery after awake glioma surgery.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Six Months of Piano Training in Healthy Elderly Stabilizes White Matter Microstructure in the Fornix, Compared to an Active Control Group.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Musical Sophistication and Speech Auditory-Motor Coupling: Easy Tests for Quick Answers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Auditory T-Complex Reveals Reduced Neural Activities in the Right Auditory Cortex in Musicians With Absolute Pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Fractionating auditory priors: A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
A large body of literature now exists to substantiate the long-held idea that musicians' brains differ structurally and functionally from non-musicians' brains. These differences include changes in volume, morphology, density, connectivity, and function across many regions of the brain. In addition to the extensive literature that investigates these differences cross-sectionally by comparing musicians and non-musicians, longitudinal studies have demonstrated the causal influence of music training on the brain across the lifespan. However, there is a large degree of inconsistency in the findings, with discordance between studies, laboratories, and techniques. A review of this literature highlights a number of variables that appear to moderate the relationship between music training and brain structure and function. These include age at commencement of training, sex, absolute pitch (AP), type of training, and instrument of training. These moderating variables may account for previously unexplained discrepancies in the existing literature, and we propose that future studies carefully consider research designs and methodologies that control for these variables.
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