Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity.

By Sylvain Moreno, Carlos Marques, Andreia Santos, M. Santos, São Luís Castro, Mireille Besson. Cerebral Cortex, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Music, Statistics and Probability

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Associations Between Length of Music Training and Reading Skills in Children (2011, methodology): “Based on past research (e.g., Butzlaff, 2000; Douglas & Willatts, 1994; Moreno et al., 2009; Standley, 2008) it is perhaps surprising that we did not find a correlation between length of music training and word decoding skills.”
Music training for the development of auditory skills (2010, positive): “To address this issue, longitudinal studies have been conducted in which children were randomly assigned to music training and then periodically assessed over tim”
Does music training enhance working memory performance? Findings from a quasi-experimental longitudinal study (2014, background): “For example, effects on cognitive functions have been shown in speech and language processing (Butzlaff, 2000; Moreno et al., 2009; Moreno, Bialystok, Schellenberg, Cepeda, & Chau, 2011), spatial (Brochard, Dufour, & Després, 2004; Hetland, 2000) and mathematical reasoning (Cheek & Smith, 1999; Cost”
Links between early rhythm skills, musical training, and phonological awareness (2013, positive): “Moreno et al. (2009) found that twice-weekly musical lessons, but not painting lessons, over a 6-month period was associated with enhanced word reading in 8-year-old children.”
Why would Musical Training Benefit the Neural Encoding of Speech? The OPERA Hypothesis (2011, background): “To date, randomized controlled studies of the influence of musical training on auditory processing have focused on cortical rather than subcortical signals (e.g., Moreno et al., 2009).”
Music lessons, pitch processing, and g (2010, background): “There is some evidence, however, that the causal direction goes from music lessons to cognitive functioning, at least in part ( Moreno et al., 2009; Schellenberg, 2004).”
Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “For example, Moreno et al. (2009) recently conducted an experiment in which normal third graders were pseudo-randomly assigned to nine weeks of music vs. painting lessons, and found that after musical (but not painting) training, children showed enhanced reading and improved pitch discrimination in…”
Can Music Influence Language and Cognition? (2009, methodology): “Following this first experiment, we conducted a longitudinal study (Moreno et al., 2009) in which the training lasted six months (mid-term).”
Melodies that Help: The Relation between Language Aptitude and Musical Intelligence (2011, background): “Moreno et al. (2009) also studied the effects of music on learners during a period of eight weeks to observe if the students were able to identify pitch changes in target language sentences.”
Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function (2011, background): “When training involved 6 months of specialized listeningintensive music activities, improvements were evident in children’s language comprehension and in corresponding brain-activation patterns (Moreno et al., 2009).”
Working memory and musical competence of musicians and non-musicians (2013, background): “On the other hand, Moreno et al. (2009) assigned children to 6 months of music or painting lessons, but found no significant between-group differences in WISC-III DS scores at post-test.”
Music expertise shapes audiovisual temporal integration windows for speech, sinewave speech, and music (2014, background): “…Munte et al., 2002; Schneider et al., 2005; Hannon and Trainor, 2007; Baumann et al., 2008; Imfeld et al., 2009) that seems to benefit linguistic and non-linguistic skills (Magne et al., 2006; Marques et al., 2007; Moreno et al., 2009; Tzounopoulos and Kraus, 2009; Kraus and Chandrasekaran, 2010).”
Revisiting the association between music lessons and intelligence: Training effects or music aptitude? ☆ (2017, result): “Positive results are further belied by mixed or null findings (e.g., François, Chobert, Besson, & Schön, 2013; Moreno et al., 2009).”