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 …

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 …

Learning to play a musical instrument is a complex task that integrates multiple sensory
modalities and higher-order cognitive functions. Therefore, musical training is considered a …

Although the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas have been intensely
investigated in relation to their motor functions, they are also consistently reported in studies …

Humans are able to find and tap to the beat of musical rhythms varying in complexity from
children's songs to modern jazz. Musical beat has no one-to-one relationship with auditory …

Building on her earlier work,'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of
Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and …

The idea that musical training improves speech perception in challenging listening
environments is appealing and of clinical importance, yet the mechanisms of any such …

Singing provides a unique opportunity to examine music performance—the musical
instrument is contained wholly within the body, thus eliminating the need for creating …

Evidence in animals and humans indicates that there are sensitive periods during
development, times when experience or stimulation has a greater influence on behavior and …

Learning to play an instrument at an advanced age may help to counteract or slow down
age-related cognitive decline. However, studies investigating the neural underpinnings of …