Editorial: Music Training, Neural Plasticity, and Executive Function

[...]Dubinsky et al. report that short-term choir singing improves speech-in-noise perception and pitch discrimination among older adults with hearing loss, and improvement is related to the strength of the frequency following response, a neural representation of auditory stimuli. Taken together, th...

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Published in:Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2020-08, Vol.14, p.41-41
Main Authors: Colombo, Paul J., Habibi, Assal, Alain, Claude
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absolute pitch
Adults
Auditory discrimination
Auditory plasticity
Auditory stimuli
Brain research
Children
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
cognitive control
Early childhood education
Executive function
Frequency
Hearing loss
Intelligence
Listening
Memory
Motor task performance
music training
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
neural oscillation
neural plasticity
Neuroscience
Older people
Plasticity (neural)
prefrontal cortex
Semantics
Speech perception
Studies
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Summary:[...]Dubinsky et al. report that short-term choir singing improves speech-in-noise perception and pitch discrimination among older adults with hearing loss, and improvement is related to the strength of the frequency following response, a neural representation of auditory stimuli. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that music training causes improvement of sensory, motor, and cognitive control processes among children and older adults, and are not merely reflections of pre-existing neurocognitive differences. [...]they begin to dissociate components of musical training that may lead to improvement of specific cognitive processes. [...]Criscuolo et al. show that associations between musical experience and enhanced cognitive abilities, which are frequently reported among children, are also evident among adults after controlling for potential confounding variables including age, education, socio-economic status, and personality variables.
ISSN:1662-5145
1662-5145
DOI:10.3389/fnint.2020.00041