Trial reportScientific reports2022
An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of music-based interventions on subjective well-being: a meta-analysis of listening, training, and therapy in clinical and nonclinical populations.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Can the Ability to Play Steady Beats Be Indicative of Cognitive Aging? Using a Beat Processing Device.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Music-based therapeutic interventions for medical school students with emotional regulation and mental health: a pre-post cohort study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Early musical training benefits to non-musical cognitive ability associated with the Gestalt principles.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Music involves different senses and is emotional in nature, and musicians show enhanced detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies and emotion recognition compared to non-musicians. However, whether musical training produces these enhanced abilities or if they are innate within musicians remains unclear. Thirty-one adult participants were randomly assigned to a music training, music listening, or control group who all completed a one-hour session per week for 11 weeks. The music training group received piano training, the music listening group listened to the same music, and the control group did their homework. Measures of audio-visual temporal discrepancy, facial expression recognition, autistic traits, depression, anxiety, stress and mood were completed and compared from the beginning to end of training. ANOVA results revealed that only the music training group showed a significant improvement in detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies compared to the other groups for both stimuli (flash-beep and face-voice). However, music training did not improve emotion recognition from facial expressions compared to the control group, while it did reduce the levels of depression, stress and anxiety compared to baseline. This RCT study provides the first evidence of a causal effect of music training on improved audio-visual perception that goes beyond the music domain.
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