Music training and nonmusical abilities

EG Schellenberg, CF Lima - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although
correlational data highlight positive associations, experimental results are inconclusive …

Comorbidity and cognitive overlap between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia in children

M Couvignou, R Kolinsky - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia are two specific neurodevelopmental
disorders that affect reading and music perception, respectively. Similarities at perceptual …

Rhythm but not melody processing helps reading via phonological awareness and phonological memory

J Sousa, M Martins, N Torres, SL Castro, S Silva - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Despite abundant evidence that music skills relate to enhanced reading performance, the
mechanisms subtending this relation are still under discussion. The Temporal Sampling …

Comorbidity and cognitive overlap between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia

M Couvignou, I Peretz, F Ramus - Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated whether there is a co-occurrence between developmental dyslexia
and congenital amusia in adults. First, a database of online musical tests on 18,000 …

Do developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia share underlying impairments?

M Couvignou, B Tillmann, A Caclin… - Child …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia have common characteristics. Yet, their
possible association in some individuals has been addressed only scarcely. Recently, two …

[HTML][HTML] Syntactic processing in music and language: Parallel abnormalities observed in congenital amusia

Y Sun, X Lu, HT Ho, BW Johnson, D Sammler… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Evidence is accumulating that similar cognitive resources are engaged to process syntactic
structure in music and language. Congenital amusia–a neurodevelopmental disorder that …

Auditory processing in musicians, a cross-sectional study, as a basis for auditory training optimization

M Kyrtsoudi, C Sidiras, G Papadelis, VM Iliadou - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Μusicians are reported to have enhanced auditory processing. This study aimed to assess
auditory perception in Greek musicians with respect to their musical specialization and to …

[HTML][HTML] Musical perceptual skills, but not neural auditory processing, are associated with better reading ability in childhood

E Partanen, R Kivimäki, M Huotilainen, S Ylinen… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Musical activities have been suggested to be beneficial for language development in
childhood. Randomised controlled trials using music have indicated that musical …

Syntactic and non-syntactic sources of interference by music on language processing

A Fiveash, G McArthur, WF Thompson - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Music and language are complex hierarchical systems in which individual elements are
systematically combined to form larger, syntactic structures. Suggestions that music and …

Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia

M Couvignou, H Peyre, F Ramus… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The present longitudinal study investigated the hypothesis that early musical skills (as
measured by melodic and rhythmic perception and memory) predict later literacy …