[HTML][HTML] Musical training as a framework for brain plasticity: behavior, function, and structure

SC Herholz, RJ Zatorre - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related
plasticity in the human brain. Learning to play an instrument is a highly complex task that …

Brain development during the preschool years

TT Brown, TL Jernigan - Neuropsychology review, 2012 - Springer
The preschool years represent a time of expansive mental growth, with the initial expression
of many psychological abilities that will continue to be refined into young adulthood …

[CITATION][C] Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain

O Sacks - London Picador, 2008 - books.google.com
NATIONAL BESTSELLER• With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought
to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies …

Short-term music training enhances verbal intelligence and executive function

S Moreno, E Bialystok, R Barac… - Psychological …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have designed training methods that can be used to improve mental health
and to test the efficacy of education programs. However, few studies have demonstrated …

Musical training shapes structural brain development

KL Hyde, J Lerch, A Norton, M Forgeard… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The human brain has the remarkable capacity to alter in response to environmental
demands. Training-induced structural brain changes have been demonstrated in the healthy …

Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity

S Moreno, C Marques, A Santos, M Santos… - Cerebral …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine
1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect …

Being together in time: Musical experience and the mirror neuron system

K Overy, I Molnar-Szakacs - Music perception, 2009 - online.ucpress.edu
THE DISCOVERY OF INDIVIDUAL" MIRROR NEURONS" in the macaque brain that fire both
when an action is executed and when that same action is observed or heard, and of a …

Musicians and music making as a model for the study of brain plasticity

G Schlaug - Progress in brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioral and neural correlates of executive functioning in musicians and non-musicians

J Zuk, C Benjamin, A Kenyon, N Gaab - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior
and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been …

Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development

EE Hannon, LJ Trainor - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007 - cell.com
Musical structure is complex, consisting of a small set of elements that combine to form
hierarchical levels of pitch and temporal structure according to grammatical rules. As with …