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ArticleNPJ science of learning2025

Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity.

Lucía de Hoyos, Ellen Verhoef, Aysu Okbay, Janne R Vermeulen, Celeste Figaroa, Miriam Lense, Simon E Fisher, Reyna L Gordon, Beate St Pourcain

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Article in NPJ science of learning, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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9 authors.

Lucía de HoyosLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7252-1591
Ellen VerhoefLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8315-1095
Aysu OkbayDepartment of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-7781
Janne R VermeulenLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Celeste FigaroaLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Miriam LenseBlair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Simon E FisherLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Reyna L GordonBlair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Beate St PourcainLanguage and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Beate.StPourcain@mpi.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-3517

Funding

Overall: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at VanderbiltP50HD103537 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jeffrey L Neul · 2020 to 2026
$10.3M
Neurobiological Markers of Rhythm: Risk and Resilience for Language AcquisitionR01DC016977 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GORDON, REYNA LEIGH · 2019 to 2023
$3.5M
Musical Rhythm Sensitivity to Scaffold Social Engagement in Autism Spectrum DisorderR33MH123029 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI JONES, WARREN, LENSE, MIRIAM · 2023 to 2025
$1.7M
EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) HORIZON-HLTH-2021 R2D2-MH, 101057385NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103537NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC016977NIMH NIH HHS R33 MH123029U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) R01DC016977Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early-life abilities involved in perceiving, producing and engaging with music (musicality) may shape later (social) communication and language abilities. Here, we investigate phenotypic and genetic relationships linking musicality and communication abilities by studying information from preschool and school-aged children of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 4169-6737 per measure, age 0.5-17 years). Using structural models, we identified relationships between latent musicality and speech- and cognition-related variables (r > 0.30). Consistently, polygenic scores for rhythmicity in adulthood (PGS

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