by David Gibson | Feb 19, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Training, Sound and Children
Musical training has a pervasive positive effect. This is manifested in a number of interesting ways. First, unsurprisingly perhaps, musicians excel at pitch and rhythm perception and discrimination. Likewise, instrumental musicians tend to have superior fine motor...
by David Gibson | Feb 17, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Emotion, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Therapy, Music Training
There has been a surge of music-themed research in the field of auditory neuroscience in the past decade. A wealth of data have confirmed that musically trained individuals have structural, functional, and developmental differences in their brains relative to...
by David Gibson | Feb 15, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Training, Sound and Children
Auditory training works. Behavioral and neurophysiological studies have demonstrated training-related benefits in a variety of populations, including children with hearing loss or auditory-based learning impairments, young adults learning non-native lexical contrasts,...
by David Gibson | Feb 13, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Therapy, Music Training, Sound and Children
Historically, research assessing the impact of musical training has focused on those children whose families are able to pay for private lessons. In this article however, Nina Kraus outlines the findings of one of her recent projects; assessing the impact of community...
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