. Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or ton... more . Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or tonal discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these benefits also occur in auditory working memory by influencing its neural substrates. Two groups of children aged between 7 and 11 years old were compared using an auditory retrieval task with three conditions: frequency retrieval, duration retrieval, and control. Musician children had weekly private violin or cello lessons for at least 14 months, whereas non-musician children had no musical training. Results showed that musicians’ scores on the Gordon’s Primary Measure of Music Audiation test were significantly higher than non-musicians’ scores in the rhythm and tone conditions. On memory tasks, musicians outperformed non-musicians in frequency retrieval but not in duration retrieval. Differences in retrieval performance were associated with a larger P200-like waveform over frontal sites in musicians and a larger N400-like waveform over centro-parietal sites in non-musicians. A source current density analysis revealed differences in frontal activities between musicians and non-musicians, suggesting that musical training influenced the neural mechanisms supporting auditory retrieval in children. These results are in agreement with previous studies that showed a better auditory memory in musicians. Furthermore, they suggest that in children, the effect of musical training can be strong enough to positively influence higher-order auditory memory processes such as active retrieval, as well as their neural correlates.
La recherche en neurosciences nous permet aujourd'hui de mieux comprendre les benefices qu... more La recherche en neurosciences nous permet aujourd'hui de mieux comprendre les benefices qu'apporte l'apprentissage d'un instrument de musique sur les fonctions executives en general et sur la memoire de travail en particulier. Bien qu'un certain nombre d'etudes demontrent des effets positifs de la pratique instrumentale sur la memoire de travail chez l'adulte, tres peu d'etudes se sont penchees sur les effets chez l'enfant. La memoire de travail est un ensemble de processus qui implique non seulement le stockage temporaire de l'information, mais aussi sa manipulation, engageant des habiletes cognitives complexes. Un de ces processus est la capacite d'isoler en memoire ou de selectionner une information particuliere. Ce processus qualifie de rappel actif est connu pour engager le cortex prefrontal chez l'adulte. L'objectif de cette etude etait d'examiner les effets de la pratique musicale au violon ou au violoncelle sur une des ...
. Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or ton... more . Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or tonal discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these benefits also occur in auditory working memory by influencing its neural substrates. Two groups of children aged between 7 and 11 years old were compared using an auditory retrieval task with three conditions: frequency retrieval, duration retrieval, and control. Musician children had weekly private violin or cello lessons for at least 14 months, whereas non-musician children had no musical training. Results showed that musicians’ scores on the Gordon’s Primary Measure of Music Audiation test were significantly higher than non-musicians’ scores in the rhythm and tone conditions. On memory tasks, musicians outperformed non-musicians in frequency retrieval but not in duration retrieval. Differences in retrieval performance were associated with a larger P200-like waveform over frontal sites in musicians and a larger N400-like waveform over centro-parietal sites in non-musicians. A source current density analysis revealed differences in frontal activities between musicians and non-musicians, suggesting that musical training influenced the neural mechanisms supporting auditory retrieval in children. These results are in agreement with previous studies that showed a better auditory memory in musicians. Furthermore, they suggest that in children, the effect of musical training can be strong enough to positively influence higher-order auditory memory processes such as active retrieval, as well as their neural correlates.
La recherche en neurosciences nous permet aujourd'hui de mieux comprendre les benefices qu... more La recherche en neurosciences nous permet aujourd'hui de mieux comprendre les benefices qu'apporte l'apprentissage d'un instrument de musique sur les fonctions executives en general et sur la memoire de travail en particulier. Bien qu'un certain nombre d'etudes demontrent des effets positifs de la pratique instrumentale sur la memoire de travail chez l'adulte, tres peu d'etudes se sont penchees sur les effets chez l'enfant. La memoire de travail est un ensemble de processus qui implique non seulement le stockage temporaire de l'information, mais aussi sa manipulation, engageant des habiletes cognitives complexes. Un de ces processus est la capacite d'isoler en memoire ou de selectionner une information particuliere. Ce processus qualifie de rappel actif est connu pour engager le cortex prefrontal chez l'adulte. L'objectif de cette etude etait d'examiner les effets de la pratique musicale au violon ou au violoncelle sur une des ...
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