SynthesisNature communications2025
Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations.
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- Distinct Rhythmic Competencies Identified via Internet-Based Assessment.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Rhythmic skills mediate the link between music training and cognition via attention and phonological processing.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Impaired musical rhythm abilities and developmental speech-language related disorders are biologically and clinically intertwined. Prior work examining their relationship has primarily used small samples; here, we studied associations at population-scale by conducting the largest systematic epidemiological investigation to date (total N = 39,358). Based on existing theoretical frameworks, we predicted that rhythm impairment would be a significant risk factor for speech-language disorders in the general adult population. Findings were consistent across multiple independent datasets and rhythm subskills (including beat synchronization and rhythm discrimination), and aggregate meta-analyzed data showed that non-linguistic rhythm impairment is a modest but consistent risk factor for developmental speech, language, and reading disorders (OR = 1.33 [1.18 - 1.49]; p < .0001). Further, cross-trait polygenic score analyses (total N = 7180) indicated shared genetic architecture between musical rhythm and reading abilities, suggesting genetic pleiotropy between musicality and language-related phenotypes.
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