ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Music Training, Working Memory, and Neural Oscillations: A Review.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder: meta-analysis and potential biological mechanisms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Musical development during adolescence: Perceptual skills, cognitive resources, and musical training.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Pooled it
- How musical rhythm training improves short-term memory for faces.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Trial
- Music and Exercise in Concert: Uncovering Synergistic Mechanisms for Enhancing Brain Health and Cognitive Resilience-A Narrative Review.Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- Binaural Beat Stimulation Enhances Cognitive Function in Alzheimer's Disease via Temporal Lobe Activation: An sLORETA Study.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Temporal-oscillatory entrainment: a multi-timescale framework for rhythmic coordination from neural to social frequencies.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Influence of Music on Mental Health Through Neuroplasticity: Mechanisms, Clinical Implications, and Contextual Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- How Culture and Musical Engagement Shape Musical Reward Sensitivity in Danish Teens: A Validation Study of the Danish Barcelona Musical Reward Questionnaire With 4641 Adolescents.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Effect of music therapy on children with autism spectrum disorders in the Chinese population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Bi-temporal processing in music notation reading: a theory linking prediction, memory, and automaticity.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Auditory working memory mechanisms mediating the relationship between musicianship and auditory stream segregation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Physiological Entrainment: A Key Mind-Body Mechanism for Cognitive, Motor and Affective Functioning, and Well-Being.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- The Influence of Music Reading on Spatial Working Memory and Self-Assessment Accuracy.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Enhancing cognitive abilities in young adults with ADHD through instrumental music training: a comparative analysis of musicians and non-musicians.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Theta and alpha oscillations may underlie improved attention and working memory in musically trained children.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Construction of a Chinese traditional instrumental music dataset: A validated set of naturalistic affective music excerpts.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Age and familiarity effects on musical memory.PloS one · 2024Article
- The psychophysiology of music-based interventions and the experience of pain.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Music interventions in 132 healthy older adults enhance cerebellar grey matter and auditory working memory, despite general brain atrophy.Neuroimage. Reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
This review focuses on reports that link music training to working memory and neural oscillations. Music training is increasingly associated with improvement in working memory, which is strongly related to both localized and distributed patterns of neural oscillations. Importantly, there is a small but growing number of reports of relationships between music training, working memory, and neural oscillations in adults. Taken together, these studies make important contributions to our understanding of the neural mechanisms that support effects of music training on behavioral measures of executive functions. In addition, they reveal gaps in our knowledge that hold promise for further investigation. The current review is divided into the main sections that follow: (1) discussion of behavioral measures of working memory, and effects of music training on working memory in adults; (2) relationships between music training and neural oscillations during temporal stages of working memory; (3) relationships between music training and working memory in children; (4) relationships between music training and working memory in older adults; and (5) effects of entrainment of neural oscillations on cognitive processing. We conclude that the study of neural oscillations is proving useful in elucidating the neural mechanisms of relationships between music training and the temporal stages of working memory. Moreover, a lifespan approach to these studies will likely reveal strategies to improve and maintain executive function during development and aging.
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