Lifetime benefits of musical training.

Sã©Bastien Paquette,Geneviã¨Ve Mignault Goulet

doi:10.3389/fnins.2014.00089

Sã©Bastien Paquette, Geneviã¨Ve Mignault Goulet

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00089

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Abstract

Lifetime benefits of musical training.

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Edited by: Claude Alain, Rotman Research Institute, Canada Reviewed by: Gavin M
White-Schwoch et al (2013), attempted to address this question via an experiment designed to determine if musical training early in life, even if for only a short period, can have long-term effects and offset the normally occurring age related decline of auditory neural function; when compared to normal hearing youg adults, older adults have a loss of temporal precision in the subcortical encoding of sound (Anderson et al, 2012)
Based on the premise that adults with lifelong musical training (Parbery-Clark et al, 2012) do not exhibit age-related subcortical neural timing delays in response to fast-changing sounds (i.e., consonant– vowel (CV) transitions) important for language-based abilities, they sought to explore if limited early musical training could offset these age related timing delays

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Edited by: Claude Alain, Rotman Research Institute, Canada Reviewed by: Gavin M. Older adults benefit from music training early in life: biological evidence for long term training-driven plasticity by White-Schwoch, T., Carr K.

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