Faster maturation of selective attention in musically trained children and adolescents: Converging behavioral and event‐related potential evidence

Putkinen, Vesa; Saarikivi, Katri; Chan, T.M. Vanessa; Tervaniemi, Mari

doi:10.1111/ejn.15262

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“…However, despite the positive findings of this study, the results were barely non-significant ( p = 0.06). Similarly, Putkinen et al ( 2021 ) did not identify a significant association between prior music education and selective attention performance (NEPSY subtests) in Finnish adolescents.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In adolescents, the studies by Putniken and Saarkivi failed to identify any improvement in inhibitory control measurements among those with prior music training. Nevertheless, the completion time for the tests was significantly faster in the music-trained groups (Saarikivi et al, 2016 ; Putkinen et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Visuospatial WM significantly improved in the visual arts group compared to other interventions. In Finnish adolescents, two case-control studies failed to identify a significant effect of music training on WM performance using NEPSY tests (Saarikivi et al, 2016 ; Putkinen et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…Therefore, we included a domain for selective attention, acknowledging the close relationship that this EF domain has with inhibitory control. Four studies evaluated the effects of music education on selective attention using the “Auditory Attention” subtest of NEPSY-II and the “Peg tapping” task (Degé et al, 2011 ; Bowmer et al, 2018 ; Frischen et al, 2021 ; Putkinen et al, 2021 ). A total of 303 children ( n = 159 allocated to the music intervention) participated in these studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In line with this hypothesis, we did not observe improved performance in inhibitory control in the studies performed on adolescents. However, adolescents exposed to music training were able to complete the test faster, with a similar amount of errors (Saarikivi et al, 2016 ; Putkinen et al, 2021 ).…”

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Effects of music training in executive function performance in children: A systematic review

Rodríguez-Gomez

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2022

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Music training has traditionally been a fundamental component of children's education across several cultures. Moreover, music training has been hypothesized to enhance the development of executive functions and improve executive performance in children. In this systematic review, we analyze the available evidence of the effects of music training on executive function performance, evaluated using validated neuropsychologic batteries and classic tasks. To achieve this objective, we performed a systematic search in three databases (PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Scopus) and selected case-control or intervention studies conducted on children with neurotypical development. We analyzed 29 studies that met the inclusion criteria and observed significant heterogeneity among the music interventions and methods for assessing executive functions. The review of the available literature suggests a beneficial effect of music training in core executive function performance, primarily in inhibitory control, and to a lesser extent, in working memory and cognitive flexibility.

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2022

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Alpha band modulation caused by selective attention to music enables EEG classification

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Humans are able to pay selective attention to music or speech in the presence of multiple sounds. It has been reported that in the speech domain, selective attention enhances the cross-correlation between the envelope of speech and electroencephalogram (EEG) while also affecting the spatial modulation of the alpha band. However, when multiple music pieces are performed at the same time, it is unclear how selective attention affects neural entrainment and spatial modulation. In this paper, we hypothesized that the entrainment to the attended music differs from that to the unattended music and that spatial modulation in the alpha band occurs in conjunction with attention. We conducted experiments in which we presented musical excerpts to 15 participants, each listening to two excerpts simultaneously but paying attention to one of the two. The results showed that the cross-correlation function between the EEG signal and the envelope of the unattended melody had a more prominent peak than that of the attended melody, contrary to the findings for speech. In addition, the spatial modulation in the alpha band was found with a data-driven approach called the common spatial pattern method. Classification of the EEG signal with a support vector machine identified attended melodies and achieved an accuracy of 100% for 11 of the 15 participants. These results suggest that selective attention to music suppresses entrainment to the melody and that spatial modulation of the alpha band occurs in conjunction with attention. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to detect attended music consisting of several types of music notes only with EEG.

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Chinese-English bilinguals are more sensitive to environmental sound perception than Spanish-English bilinguals through top-down cognitive mechanism

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Flemming

Cortiana

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Biological Psychology

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Faster maturation of selective attention in musically trained children and adolescents: Converging behavioral and event‐related potential evidence

Cited by 8 publications

References 78 publications

Effects of music training in executive function performance in children: A systematic review

Effects of music training in executive function performance in children: A systematic review

Alpha band modulation caused by selective attention to music enables EEG classification

Chinese-English bilinguals are more sensitive to environmental sound perception than Spanish-English bilinguals through top-down cognitive mechanism

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