ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2016
Neural correlates of accelerated auditory processing in children engaged in music training.
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- Implications of musical practice in central auditory processing: a systematic review.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyPooled it
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- Music training with Démos program positively influences cognitive functions in children from low socio-economic backgrounds.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Musical Competence is Predicted by Music Training, Cognitive Abilities, and Personality.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Critical Review on the Development and Evolution of Beat Perception.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- From Gaze to Music: AI-Powered Personalized Audiovisual Experiences for Children's Aesthetic Education.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How musicality enhances top-down and bottom-up selective attention: Insights from precise separation of simultaneous neural responses.Science advances · 2025Article
- Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Long-term music instruction is partially associated with the development of socioemotional skills.PloS one · 2024Article
- Individual differences in rhythm perception modulate music-related motor learning: a neurobehavioral training study with children.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Meta-Analysis Exploring the Effects of Music Training in Cochlear Implant Users by Age.Journal of audiology & otology · 2023Article
- Positive or negative environmental modulations on human brain development: the morpho-functional outcomes of music training or stress.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Effects of a 10-week musical instrument training on cognitive function in healthy older adults: implications for desirable tests and period of training.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Music-based interventions in community settings: Navigating the tension between rigor and ecological validity.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Review
- Short-term plasticity of neuro-auditory processing induced by musical active listening training.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Article
- Music Literacy and Soundscape Perception: A Study Based on the Soundwalk Method of Soundscapes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Elements of musical and dance sophistication predict musical groove perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Several studies comparing adult musicians and non-musicians have shown that music training is associated with brain differences. It is unknown, however, whether these differences result from lengthy musical training, from pre-existing biological traits, or from social factors favoring musicality. As part of an ongoing 5-year longitudinal study, we investigated the effects of a music training program on the auditory development of children, over the course of two years, beginning at age 6-7. The training was group-based and inspired by El-Sistema. We compared the children in the music group with two comparison groups of children of the same socio-economic background, one involved in sports training, another not involved in any systematic training. Prior to participating, children who began training in music did not differ from those in the comparison groups in any of the assessed measures. After two years, we now observe that children in the music group, but not in the two comparison groups, show an enhanced ability to detect changes in tonal environment and an accelerated maturity of auditory processing as measured by cortical auditory evoked potentials to musical notes. Our results suggest that music training may result in stimulus specific brain changes in school aged children.
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