期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 19, 期 3, 页码 712-723出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn120
关键词
event-related potentials; musical training; neuropsychological tests; pitch processing; transfer of training
资金
- Human Frontier Science Program [RGP0053]
- Ministere de l education nationale et de la recherche [032443]
- Portuguese Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT)
- Camara de Oliveira do Bairro
- Escola de Artes da Bairrada
We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine 1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect specific predispositions for music or result from musical training and 2) whether musical training improves nonmusical brain functions such as reading and linguistic pitch processing. Event-related brain potentials were recorded while 8-year-old children performed tasks designed to test the hypothesis that musical training improves pitch processing not only in music but also in speech. Following the first testing sessions nonmusician children were pseudorandomly assigned to music or to painting training for 6 months and were tested again after training using the same tests. After musical (but not painting) training, children showed enhanced reading and pitch discrimination abilities in speech. Remarkably, 6 months of musical training thus suffices to significantly improve behavior and to influence the development of neural processes as reflected in specific pattern of brain waves. These results reveal positive transfer from music to speech and highlight the influence of musical training. Finally, they demonstrate brain plasticity in showing that relatively short periods of training have strong consequences on the functional organization of the children's brain.
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