Size and Synchronization of Auditory Cortex Promotes Musical, Literacy, and Attentional Skills in Children

Seither-Preisler, Annemarie; Parncutt, Richard; Schneider, Peter

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5315-13.2014

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“…Recent longitudinal studies have observed structural (Hyde et al, 2009) and functional (Seither-Preisler, Parncutt, & Schneider, 2014; Trainor, Lee, & Bosnyak, 2011) music-induced neuroplasticity that corroborates correlational differences between adult musicians and nonmusicians (for reviews, see Herholz & Zatorre, 2012; Münte, Altenmüller, & Jäncke, 2002). Multiple studies have suggested that the neural basis of the reported music-to-other-cognition transfer effects involves enhancement of neural resources shared with general executive cognition; however, they acknowledge that the methods failed to capture sufficient cortical dynamics to describe a more specific mechanism (Moreno et al, 2011; Jentschke & Koelsch, 2009; Patel, 2003).…”

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Short-term Music Training Enhances Complex, Distributed Neural Communication during Music and Linguistic Tasks

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Moreno

McIntosh

2016

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Musical training is frequently associated with benefits to linguistic abilities, and recent focus has been placed on possible benefits of bilingualism to lifelong executive functions; however, the neural mechanisms for such effects are unclear. The aim of this study was to gain better understanding of the whole-brain functional effects of music and second-language training that could support such previously observed cognitive transfer effects. We conducted a 28-day longitudinal study of monolingual English-speaking 4- to 6-year-old children randomly selected to receive daily music or French language training, excluding weekends. Children completed passive EEG music note and French vowel auditory oddball detection tasks before and after training. Brain signal complexity was measured on source waveforms at multiple temporal scales as an index of neural information processing and network communication load. Comparing pretraining with posttraining, musical training was associated with increased EEG complexity at coarse temporal scales during the music and French vowel tasks in widely distributed cortical regions. Conversely, very minimal decreases in complexity at fine scales and trends toward coarse-scale increases were displayed after French training during the tasks. Spectral analysis failed to distinguish between training types and found overall theta (3.5–7.5 Hz) power increases after all training forms, with spatially fewer decreases in power at higher frequencies (>10 Hz). These findings demonstrate that musical training increased diversity of brain network states to support domain-specific music skill acquisition and music-to-language transfer effects.

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Short-term Music Training Enhances Complex, Distributed Neural Communication during Music and Linguistic Tasks

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Moreno

McIntosh

2016

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Oechslin, Meyer, & Jäncke, 2010;Seither-Preisler, Parncutt, & Schneider, 2014) evidence has been provided that music and language are also partially processed in the same brain regions. Learning a musical instrument also seems to affect learning abilities in general (Serrallach et al, 2016), and musical expertise leads to higher recall, memorisation and imitation ability of foreign language material (Christiner & Reiterer, 2015Fonseca-Mora et al, 2015) stressing that the interconnectivity of both faculties may be one out of many reasons why high achievement in one of the two domains also explains high achievement in the other.…”

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Sing Chinese and tap Tagalog? Predicting individual differences in musical and phonetic aptitude using language families differing by sound-typology

Christiner

Rüdegger

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2018

International Journal of Multilingualism

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“…These differences have been attributed to training-related plasticity (Steele et al 2013; Zatorre et al 2012; Klein et al 2014; Imfeld et al 2009; Tavor et al 2013; Sampaio-Baptista et al 2013; Schlegel et al 2012; Draganski et al 2014; Seither-Preisler et al 2014), and to domain-specific aptitudes (Golestani et al 2011; Reiterer et al 2011; Seither-Preisler et al 2014). …”

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Plasticity of white matter connectivity in phonetics experts

2015

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Phonetics experts are highly trained to analyze and transcribe speech, both with respect to faster changing, phonetic features, and to more slowly changing, prosodic features. Previously we reported that, compared to non-phoneticians, phoneticians had greater local brain volume in bilateral auditory cortices and the left pars opercularis of Broca’s area, with training-related differences in the grey-matter volume of the left pars opercularis in the phoneticians group (Golestani et al. 2011). In the present study, we used diffusion MRI to examine white matter microstructure, indexed by fractional anisotropy, in (1) the long segment of arcuate fasciculus (AF_long), which is a well-known language tract that connects Broca’s area, including left pars opercularis, to the temporal cortex, and in (2) the fibers arising from the auditory cortices. Most of these auditory fibers belong to three validated language tracts, namely to the AF_long, the posterior segment of the arcuate fasciculus and the middle longitudinal fasciculus. We found training-related differences in phoneticians in left AF_long, as well as group differences relative to non-experts in the auditory fibers (including the auditory fibers belonging to the left AF_long). Taken together, the results of both studies suggest that grey matter structural plasticity arising from phonetic transcription training in Broca’s area is accompanied by changes to the white matter fibers connecting this very region to the temporal cortex. Our findings suggest expertise-related changes in white matter fibers connecting fronto-temporal functional hubs that are important for phonetic processing. Further studies can pursue this hypothesis by examining the dynamics of these expertise related grey and white matter changes as they arise during phonetic training.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00429-015-1114-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Size and Synchronization of Auditory Cortex Promotes Musical, Literacy, and Attentional Skills in Children

Cited by 137 publications

References 112 publications

Short-term Music Training Enhances Complex, Distributed Neural Communication during Music and Linguistic Tasks

Short-term Music Training Enhances Complex, Distributed Neural Communication during Music and Linguistic Tasks

Sing Chinese and tap Tagalog? Predicting individual differences in musical and phonetic aptitude using language families differing by sound-typology

Plasticity of white matter connectivity in phonetics experts

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