ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Musical Instrument Practice Predicts White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Abilities in Childhood.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Development strategy of early childhood music education industry: An IFS-AHP-SWOT analysis based on dynamic social network.PloS one · 2024Article
- Neurological Music Therapy Rebuilds Structural Connectome after Traumatic Brain Injury: Secondary Analysis from a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Brain Plasticity Reflects Specialized Cognitive Development Induced by Musical Training.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
- Deficits in musical rhythm perception in children with specific learning disabilities.NeuroRehabilitation · 2021Review
- Relationship between Interhemispheric Inhibition and Dexterous Hand Performance in Musicians and Non-musicians.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Decoding everyday levels of musical training from subcortical white-matter architecture.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Musical training has been associated with advantages in cognitive measures of IQ and verbal ability, as well as neural measures including white matter microstructural properties in the corpus callosum (CC) and the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). We hypothesized that children who have musical training will have different microstructural properties in the SLF and CC. One hundred children aged 7.9-9.9 years (mean age 8.7) were surveyed for their musical activities, completed neuropsychological testing for general cognitive abilities, and underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) as part of a larger study. Children who play a musical instrument for more than 0.5 h per week (
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