Due to potential theoretical and societal implications, cognitive training has been one of the
most influential topics in psychology and neuroscience. The assumption behind cognitive …

Objective: Music and speech are complex signals containing regularities in how they unfold
in time. Similarities between music and speech/language in terms of their auditory features …

Music training has repeatedly been claimed to positively impact children's cognitive skills
and academic achievement (literacy and mathematics). This claim relies on the assumption …

Several studies have suggested that intensive musical training enhances children's
linguistic skills. Such training, however, is not available to all children. We studied in a …

An extensive literature has investigated the impact of musical training on cognitive skills and
academic achievement in children and adolescents. However, most of the studies have …

It is often claimed that music training improves auditory and linguistic skills. Results of
individual studies are mixed, however, and most evidence is correlational, precluding …

Engagement in leisure activities has been claimed to be highly beneficial in the elderly.
Practicing such activities is supposed to help older adults to preserve cognitive function …

There is no end of talk and of wondering about'art'and'the arts.'This book examines a
number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these …

What is it that drives people to undertake music research? Such interest frequently grows
from on-the-ground experiences as learners, performers, facilitators, composers, arts …

Individuals differ in musical competence, which we defined as the ability to perceive,
remember, and discriminate sequences of tones or beats. We asked whether such …