ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2017
Variations on the theme of musical expertise: cognitive and sensory processing in percussionists, vocalists and non-musicians.
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- Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception.Science advances · 2023Article
- Long-term musical training induces white matter plasticity in emotion and language networks.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Musical experience prior to traumatic exposure as a resilience factor: a conceptual analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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- The Skill Training of Reading Music in the Teaching of Solfeggio and Ear Training in the New Media Environment.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2022Article
- Musical instrument engagement in adolescence predicts verbal ability 4 years later: A twin and adoption study.Developmental psychology · 2021Article
- Musical Sophistication and Speech Auditory-Motor Coupling: Easy Tests for Quick Answers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- 'MusiMath' and 'Academic Music' - Two music-based intervention programs for fractions learning in fourth grade students.Developmental science · 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
- Speech perception is similar for musicians and non-musicians across a wide range of conditions.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Short-Term Choir Singing Supports Speech-in-Noise Perception and Neural Pitch Strength in Older Adults With Age-Related Hearing Loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- New Perspectives on Music in Rehabilitation of Executive and Attention Functions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Individual differences in musical training and executive functions: A latent variable approach.Memory & cognition · 2018Article
- Timing Deficits in ADHD: Insights From the Neuroscience of Musical Rhythm.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2018Article
- Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Comparisons of musicians and non-musicians have revealed enhanced cognitive and sensory processing in musicians, with longitudinal studies suggesting these enhancements may be due in part to experience-based plasticity. Here, we investigate the impact of primary instrument on the musician signature of expertise by assessing three groups of young adults: percussionists, vocalists, and non-musician controls. We hypothesize that primary instrument engenders selective enhancements reflecting the most salient acoustic features to that instrument, whereas cognitive functions are enhanced regardless of instrument. Consistent with our hypotheses, percussionists show more precise encoding of the fast-changing acoustic features of speech than non-musicians, whereas vocalists have better frequency discrimination and show stronger encoding of speech harmonics than non-musicians. There were no strong advantages to specialization in sight-reading vs. improvisation. These effects represent subtle nuances to the signature since the musician groups do not differ from each other in these measures. Interestingly, percussionists outperform both non-musicians and vocalists in inhibitory control. Follow-up analyses reveal that within the vocalists and non-musicians, better proficiency on an instrument other than voice is correlated with better inhibitory control. Taken together, these outcomes suggest the more extensive engagement of motor systems during instrumental practice may be an important factor for enhancements in inhibitory control, consistent with evidence for overlapping neural circuitry involved in both motor and cognitive control. These findings contribute to the ongoing refinement of the musician signature of expertise and may help to inform the use of music in training and intervention to strengthen cognitive function.
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