Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Although brain plasticity is greatest in the first few years of life, the brain continues to be
shaped by experience throughout adulthood. Advances in fMRI have enabled us to examine …

Cognitive and neurobehavioral problems are among the most severe adverse outcomes in
very preterm infants. Such neurodevelopmental impairments may be mitigated through …

Differences in early self-regulation skills contribute to disparities in success in early learning
and school transition, as well as in childhood well-being. Self-regulation refers to managing …

Neonatal intensive care units are willing to apply environmental enrichment via music for
preterm newborns. However, no evidence of an effect of music on preterm brain …

Studies of brain connectivity have focused on two modes of networks: structural networks
describing neuroanatomy and the intrinsic and evoked dependencies of functional networks …

Self-regulation skills are an important predictor of school readiness and early school
achievement. Research identifies that experiences of early stress in disadvantaged …

Recently, there has been increased focus on movement and sensory abnormalities in
autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This has come from research demonstrating cortical and …

Human imagination is bounded. As situations become more distant in time, place,
perspective, and likelihood, they also become more difficult to simulate. What underlies the …

Musical expertise is visible both in the morphology and functionality of the brain. Recent
research indicates that functional integration between multi‐sensory, somato‐motor, default …