Trial reportScientific reports2018
Musical Competence is Predicted by Music Training, Cognitive Abilities, and Personality.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- No Evidence That Music Training Benefits Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Listeners: A Systematic Review.Trends in hearingPooled it
- Music training with Démos program positively influences cognitive functions in children from low socio-economic backgrounds.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Strength Predicts Musical Perception and Speech-in-Noise Performance in Nonmusicians.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Are Mathematical and Musical Abilities Related Beyond Intelligence?Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- The role of Big Five personality domains and facets in musical sensibility: a twin study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Is musical ability related to second-language acquisition? A meta-analysis.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Frontoparietal network topology as a neural marker of musical perceptual abilities.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The transformative power of music: Insights into neuroplasticity, health, and disease.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Review
- Long-term music instruction is partially associated with the development of socioemotional skills.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Individual differences in musical ability among adults with no music training.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Exploring the genetics of rhythmic perception and musical engagement in the Vanderbilt Online Musicality Study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Article
- Musicians and non-musicians show different preference profiles for single chords of varying harmonic complexity.PloS one · 2023Article
- A correlation study of music training, adult attachment, and personality traits using a large-sample questionnaire.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- You got rhythm, or more: The multidimensionality of rhythmic abilities.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Can musical ability be tested online?Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Auditory and visual short-term memory: influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Emotion and expertise: how listeners with formal music training use cues to perceive emotion.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Working-Memory, Alpha-Theta Oscillations and Musical Training in Older Age: Research Perspectives for Speech-on-speech Perception.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- Understanding Sensitive Period Effects in Musical Training.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Individuals differ in musical competence, which we defined as the ability to perceive, remember, and discriminate sequences of tones or beats. We asked whether such differences could be explained by variables other than music training, including socioeconomic status (SES), short-term memory, general cognitive ability, and personality. In a sample of undergraduates, musical competence had positive simple associations with duration of music training, SES, short-term memory, general cognitive ability, and openness-to-experience. When these predictors were considered jointly, musical competence had positive partial associations with music training, general cognitive ability, and openness. Nevertheless, moderation analyses revealed that the partial association between musical competence and music training was evident only among participants who scored below the mean on our measure of general cognitive ability. Moreover, general cognitive ability and openness had indirect associations with musical competence by predicting music training, which in turn predicted musical competence. Musical competence appears to be the result of multiple factors, including but not limited to music training.
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