During the last decades music neuroscience has become a rapidly growing field within the
area of neuroscience. Music is particularly well suited for studying neuronal plasticity in the …

A large body of literature now exists to substantiate the long-held idea that musicians' brains
differ structurally and functionally from non-musicians' brains. These differences include …

Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

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 …

The role of music training in fostering brain plasticity and developing high cognitive skills,
notably linguistic abilities, is of great interest from both a scientific and a societal perspective …

Auditory evoked responses to a violin tone and a noise-burst stimulus were recorded from 4-
to 6-year-old children in four repeated measurements over a 1-year period using …

Musical training is known to modify auditory perception and related cortical organization.
Here, we show that these modifications may extend to higher cognitive functions and …

The present study aimed to examine the influence of musical expertise on the metric and
semantic aspects of speech processing. In two attentional conditions (metric and semantic …

One of the benefits musicians derive from their training is an increased ability to detect small
differences between sounds. Here, we asked whether musicians' experience discriminating …

Previous neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that musical expertise leads to functional
alterations in language processing. We utilized diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to investigate …