ArticleFrontiers in psychology2013
Art and science: how musical training shapes the brain.
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- An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- A Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Music Training on Attention in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Crossover Study of the Impact of Online Music Training on Pitch and Timbre Perception in Cochlear Implant Users.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2019Trial
- Cross-modal plasticity in a blind jazz pianist and prodigy.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026Article
- How experiencing eudaimonic emotions through music shapes prosocial and altruistic behavior: introducing a Unified Model of Music-Listening-Induced Eudaimonia (UMMIE).Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Cortical and subcortical structural changes in pediatric patients with infratentorial tumors.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2024Article
- Can Music Enhance Working Memory and Speech in Noise Perception in Cochlear Implant Users? Design Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study.Audiology research · 2024Article
- The effects of musicality on brain network topology in the context of Alzheimer's disease and memory decline.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Long-term musical training induces white matter plasticity in emotion and language networks.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Auditory and visual category learning in musicians and nonmusicians.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2022Article
- Learning to play a musical instrument in the middle school is associated with superior audiovisual working memory and fluid intelligence: A cross-sectional behavioral study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Lenticular nucleus volume predicts performance in real-time strategy game: cross-sectional and training approach using voxel-based morphometry.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2021Article
- Should musicians play in pain?British journal of pain · 2021Article
- The Small and Efficient Language Network of Polyglots and Hyper-polyglots.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- How Musical Training Shapes the Adult Brain: Predispositions and Neuroplasticity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Multi-Voiced Music Bypasses Attentional Limitations in the Brain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Use of Therapeutic Music Training to Remediate Cognitive Impairment Following an Acquired Brain Injury: The Theoretical Basis and a Case Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Mechanisms of Timing, Timbre, Repertoire, and Entrainment in Neuroplasticity: Mutual Interplay in Neonatal Development.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2020Article
- Cognitive Benefits From a Musical Activity in Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
What makes a musician? In this review, we discuss innate and experience-dependent factors that mold the musician brain in addition to presenting new data in children that indicate that some neural enhancements in musicians unfold with continued training over development. We begin by addressing effects of training on musical expertise, presenting neural, perceptual, and cognitive evidence to support the claim that musicians are shaped by their musical training regimes. For example, many musician-advantages in the neural encoding of sound, auditory perception, and auditory-cognitive skills correlate with their extent of musical training, are not observed in young children just initiating musical training, and differ based on the type of training pursued. Even amidst innate characteristics that contribute to the biological building blocks that make up the musician, musicians demonstrate further training-related enhancements through extensive education and practice. We conclude by reviewing evidence from neurobiological and epigenetic approaches to frame biological markers of musicianship in the context of interactions between genetic and experience-related factors.
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