Background: Emotion regulation (ER) is an internal process through which a person
maintains a comfortable state of arousal by modulating one or more aspects of emotion. The …

Everyday life is defined by goal states that are continuously reprioritized based on available,
often affective information. To pursue these goals, individuals need to process and maintain …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Power of Music a research synthesis of the impact of actively
making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young …

Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior
and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been …

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

Psychophysiological evidence suggests that music and language are intimately coupled
such that experience/training in one domain can influence processing required in the other …

Background Several studies have found that musicians perform better than nonmusicians in
memory tasks, but this is not always the case, and the strength of this apparent advantage is …

The increasingly intensive study of music by neuroscientists over the past two decades has
established the neurosciences of music as a subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …