Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
Music enrichment programs improve the neural encoding of speech in at-risk children.
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Project CHROMA (Cognitive Health Research on Musical Arts)
Music to Enhance Auditory Encoding in Young Children: A Pilot Study
Who cites it
63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 230 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of bullying prevention-associated interventions among children and adolescents: an umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Cognitive enrichment through art: a randomized controlled trial on the effect of music or visual arts group practice on cognitive and brain development of young children.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Trial
- 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
- Music training with Démos program positively influences cognitive functions in children from low socio-economic backgrounds.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Linguistic effect on speech perception observed at the brainstem.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Trial
- The Effects of Musical Training on Child Development: a Randomized Trial of El Sistema in Venezuela.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Trial
- The impact of musical training on reading ability in children: the mediating role of working memory.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Red musical identity and subjective wellbeing: a longitudinal study of the chain mediating roles of awe and prosocial behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Short- and long-term neuroplasticity interact during the perceptual learning of concurrent speech.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Myogenic artifacts masquerade as neuroplasticity in the auditory frequency-following response.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Language-to-music transfer effects depend on the tone language: Akan vs. East Asian tone languages.Memory & cognition · 2023Article
- Neural Processing of Speech Sounds in ASD and First-Degree Relatives.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Efferent Control in Musicians: A Review.Audiology research · 2023Review
- Early musical training benefits to non-musical cognitive ability associated with the Gestalt principles.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Music-based interventions in community settings: Navigating the tension between rigor and ecological validity.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Review
- A Home-Based Approach to Auditory Brainstem Response Measurement: Proof-of-Concept and Practical Guidelines.Seminars in hearing · 2022Review
- Inadequate pitch-difference sensitivity prevents half of all listeners from discriminating major vs minor tone sequences.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- It Takes Two: Interpersonal Neural Synchrony Is Increased after Musical Interaction.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Elements of musical and dance sophistication predict musical groove perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Language experience during the sensitive period narrows infants' sensory encoding of lexical tones-Music intervention reverses it.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Musicians are often reported to have enhanced neurophysiological functions, especially in the auditory system. Musical training is thought to improve nervous system function by focusing attention on meaningful acoustic cues, and these improvements in auditory processing cascade to language and cognitive skills. Correlational studies have reported musician enhancements in a variety of populations across the life span. In light of these reports, educators are considering the potential for co-curricular music programs to provide auditory-cognitive enrichment to children during critical developmental years. To date, however, no studies have evaluated biological changes following participation in existing, successful music education programs. We used a randomized control design to investigate whether community music participation induces a tangible change in auditory processing. The community music training was a longstanding and successful program that provides free music instruction to children from underserved backgrounds who stand at high risk for learning and social problems. Children who completed 2 years of music training had a stronger neurophysiological distinction of stop consonants, a neural mechanism linked to reading and language skills. One year of training was insufficient to elicit changes in nervous system function; beyond 1 year, however, greater amounts of instrumental music training were associated with larger gains in neural processing. We therefore provide the first direct evidence that community music programs enhance the neural processing of speech in at-risk children, suggesting that active and repeated engagement with sound changes neural function.
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