ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2015
Music training relates to the development of neural mechanisms of selective auditory attention.
Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05694156 (Musical Attention Control and Executive Function Training for Adults With MDD), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Musical Attention Control and Executive Function Training for Adults With MDD
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Attentional Inhibition Ability Predicts Neural Representation During Challenging Auditory Streaming.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Figure-ground relationship of voices in musical structure modulates reciprocal frontotemporal connectivity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Lifetime musical training and cognitive performance in a memory clinic population: A cross-sectional study.Musicae scientiae : the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music · 2022Article
- Elements of musical and dance sophistication predict musical groove perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Effects of Music Training on the Auditory Working Memory of Chinese-Speaking School-Aged Children: A Longitudinal Intervention Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Auditory local-global temporal processing: evidence for perceptual reorganization with musical expertise.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Effect of Vowel Auditory Training on the Speech-In-Noise Perception among Older Adults with Normal Hearing.Iranian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2020Article
- The effects of a temporal processing-based auditory training program on the auditory skills of elderly users of hearing aids: a study protocol for a randomized clinical trial.F1000Research · 2020Article
- Noise-induced hearing loss and its prevention: Integration of data from animal models and human clinical trials.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019Review
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- Selectively Enhanced Development of Working Memory in Musically Trained Children and Adolescents.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2019Article
- Body Composition and Cognitive Functioning in a Sample of Active Elders.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Attention to speech and spoken language development in deaf children with cochlear implants: a 10-year longitudinal study.Developmental science · 2018Article
- Increased functional connectivity in the ventral and dorsal streams during retrieval of novel words in professional musicians.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
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Abstract
Selective attention decreases trial-to-trial variability in cortical auditory-evoked activity. This effect increases over the course of maturation, potentially reflecting the gradual development of selective attention and inhibitory control. Work in adults indicates that music training may alter the development of this neural response characteristic, especially over brain regions associated with executive control: in adult musicians, attention decreases variability in auditory-evoked responses recorded over prefrontal cortex to a greater extent than in nonmusicians. We aimed to determine whether this musician-associated effect emerges during childhood, when selective attention and inhibitory control are under development. We compared cortical auditory-evoked variability to attended and ignored speech streams in musicians and nonmusicians across three age groups: preschoolers, school-aged children and young adults. Results reveal that childhood music training is associated with reduced auditory-evoked response variability recorded over prefrontal cortex during selective auditory attention in school-aged child and adult musicians. Preschoolers, on the other hand, demonstrate no impact of selective attention on cortical response variability and no musician distinctions. This finding is consistent with the gradual emergence of attention during this period and may suggest no pre-existing differences in this attention-related cortical metric between children who undergo music training and those who do not.
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