Effect of musical training on masking paradigm

Devi, N; Swathi, C.

doi:10.4103/0971-7749.182280

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“…The advantages of musical aptitude can be related to enhanced ability of the corresponding groups (musicians and nonmusicians with good musical aptitude) to focus and react faster in auditory working memory and visual selective attention tasks. It has been reported that musical experience through training not only augments the auditory acuity (reflected as a music-induced advantage in psychoacoustic tests [4,5] for musician group) but also seems to have an effect on the processing of other unrelated musical skills such as working memory [11] and selective attention [24]. Hansen, et al [9] found similar effects of musical training on working memory tasks such as digit forward and backward tests.…”

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“…Musicians exhibit experience linked superior performance in musical skills and the neural underpinnings of this advantage is reflected as morphological changes in their au-ditory cortices [3]. More recently, auditory scientists report advantages of musical training on auditory abilities such as speech perception in noise [4], pitch perception [5], and cognitive functioning, including memory and attention. The conglomeration of research findings suggests that musical training induces plausible changes in working memory and attention across both auditory and visual modalities [6].…”

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Musical Aptitude as a Variable in the Assessment of Working Memory and Selective Attention Tasks

Nisha¹,

Devi²,

Nayagam³

et al. 2021

J Audiol Otol

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Background and Objectives: The influence of musical aptitude on cognitive test performance in musicians is a long-debated research question. Evidence points to the low performance of nonmusicians in visual and auditory cognitive tasks (working memory and attention) compared with musicians. This cannot be generalized to all nonmusicians, as a sub-group in this population can have innate musical abilities even without any formal musical training. The present study aimed to study the effect of musical aptitude on the working memory and selective attention.Subjects and Methods: Three groups of 20 individuals each (a total of 60 participants), including trained-musicians, nonmusicians with good musical aptitude, and nonmusicians with low musical aptitude, participated in the present study. Cognitive-based visual (Flanker’s selective attention test) and auditory (working memory tests: backward digit span and operation span) tests were administered.Results: MANOVA (followed by ANOVA) revealed a benefit of musicianship and musical aptitude on backward digit span and Flanker’s reaction time (p<0.05). Discriminant function analyses showed that the groups could be effectively (accuracy, 80%) segregated based on the backward digit span and Flanker’s selective attention test. Trained musicians and nonmusicians with good musical aptitude were distinguished as one cluster and nonmusicians with low musical aptitude formed another cluster, hinting the role of musical aptitude in working memory and selective attention.Conclusions: Nonmusicians with good musical aptitude can have enhanced working memory and selective attention skills like musicians. Hence, caution is required when these individuals are included as controls in cognitive-based visual and auditory experiments.

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