Examining the relationship between skilled music training and attention

Wang, Xiao; Ossher, Lynn; Reuter‐Lorenz, Patricia A.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2015.06.014

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“…At last, specific predictions can be made regarding the impact of musical expertise on native and nonnative phoneme categorisation. Previous results in the literature showed increased auditory sensitivity (Bidelman & Krishnan, ; Marie, Delogu et al., , Marie, Magne, et al., ; Moreno et al., ; Sadakata & Sekiyama, ), as well as enhanced selective attention in musicians compared to nonmusicians (Strait, Slater, O'Connell, & Kraus, ; Wang, Ossher, & Reuter‐Lorenz, ). More important, it was also found that musicians outperform nonmusicians when the acoustic/phonetic difference between two stimuli is difficult to perceive but not when it is easy (Elmer et al., ; Schön et al., ).…”

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“…However, two points argue against such an interpretation in the present experiment: first, the categorisation tasks used here do not require a strong memory component but rather accurate auditory perception and focused attention. Thus, enhanced P300 amplitude may rather reflect enhanced selective attention in musicians compared to nonmusicians (Strait et al., ; Wang et al., ). Second, if short‐term memory influenced the musicians' level of performance, this effect should have been found in both tasks and for both phonemes, which was not the case.…”

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Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians

Dittinger

D’Imperio

Besson

2018

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Based on growing evidence suggesting that professional music training facilitates foreign language perception and learning, we examined the impact of musical expertise on the categorisation of syllables including phonemes that did (/p/, /b/) or did not (/p /) belong to the French repertoire by analysing both behaviour (error rates and reaction times) and Event-Related brain Potentials (N200 and P300 components). Professional musicians and nonmusicians categorised syllables either as /ba/ or /pa/ (voicing task), or as /pa/ or /p a/ with /p / being a nonnative phoneme for French speakers (aspiration task). In line with our hypotheses, results showed that musicians outperformed nonmusicians in the aspiration task but not in the voicing task. Moreover, the difference between the native (/p/) and the nonnative phoneme (/p /), as reflected in N200 and P300 amplitudes, was larger in musicians than in nonmusicians in the aspiration task but not in the voicing task. These results show that behaviour and brain activity associated to nonnative phoneme perception are influenced by musical expertise and that these effects are task-dependent. The implications of these findings for current models of phoneme perception and for understanding the qualitative and quantitative differences found on the N200 and P300 components are discussed.

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Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians

Dittinger

D’Imperio

Besson

2018

Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…Through exhaustive searching on different academic meta-search engines (Web of Science, Eric, CSIC, Scopus, Redired, Proquest, SCImago JR, JSTOR) we can see that several authors address the subject of attention and its link to musical education in primary education (León, 2018;Wang, Ossher, & Reuter-Lorenz, 2015).…”

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Attention In Conservatoire Students Using Body Percussion Following The Bapne Method

Ros-Silla¹,

Valcarcel-Marsa²,

Jaikel-Arce³

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The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Multiple studies have shown that musicians have better timing abilities. They achieve lower gap detection thresholds [63] and better temporal intervals discrimination [64,65]. These perceptual benefits are linked to speech-related abilities, insofar as musicians are also better at discriminating syllable duration [66].…”

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Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss

Lerousseau

Hidalgo

Schön

2020

JCM

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Despite the overall success of cochlear implantation, language outcomes remain suboptimal and subject to large inter-individual variability. Early auditory rehabilitation techniques have mostly focused on low-level sensory abilities. However, a new body of literature suggests that cognitive operations are critical for auditory perception remediation. We argue in this paper that musical training is a particularly appealing candidate for such therapies, as it involves highly relevant cognitive abilities, such as temporal predictions, hierarchical processing, and auditory-motor interactions. We review recent studies demonstrating that music can enhance both language perception and production at multiple levels, from syllable processing to turn-taking in natural conversation.

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Examining the relationship between skilled music training and attention

Cited by 38 publications

References 68 publications

Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians

Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians

Attention In Conservatoire Students Using Body Percussion Following The Bapne Method

Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss

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