The intergenerational transmission of language/reading skills has been demonstrated by
evidence reporting that parental literacy abilities contribute to the prediction of their …

The present longitudinal study investigated the hypothesis that early musical skills (as
measured by melodic and rhythmic perception and memory) predict later literacy …

Musical experience may have the potential to influence functional brain development. The
present thesis investigated how the maturation of neural auditory discrimination in childhood …

Reading acquisition is a prolonged learning process relying on language development
starting in utero. Behavioral longitudinal studies reveal prospective associations between …

Background The heritability of language and literacy skills increases from early‐childhood to
adolescence. The underlying mechanisms are little understood and may involve (a) the …

By using a longitudinal design and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), our
previous study (Wang et al., 2020) found a scaffolding effect of early phonological …

Using individual differences approaches, a growing body of literature finds positive
associations between musicality and language-related abilities, complementing prior …

The relationship between musical and linguistic skills has received particular attention in
infants and school-aged children. However, very little is known about pre-schoolers. This …

The association between music and language, in particular, the overlap in their processing
results in the possibility to use one domain for the enhancement of the other. Especially in …

Musical pitch perception is closely related to phonological awareness and reading
development in alphabetic languages. However, whether such a relation also exists in tonal …