Musical training confers advantages in speech-sound processing, which could play an
important role in early childhood education. To understand the mechanisms of this effect, we …

Musical training has been shown to positively influence linguistic abilities. To follow the
developmental dynamics of this transfer effect at the preattentive level, we conducted a …

We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine
1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect …

Growing evidence points to a link between musical abilities and certain phonetic and
prosodic skills in language. However, the mechanisms that underlie these relations are not …

In adults, music and speech share many neurocognitive functions, but how do they interact
in a developing brain? We compared the effects of music and foreign language training on …

The beneficial effects of musical training are not limited to enhancement of musical skills, but
extend to language skills. Here, we review evidence that musical training can enhance …

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech.
This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The “OPERA” hypothesis …

Young children learn multiple cognitive skills concurrently (eg, language and music).
Evidence is limited as to whether and how learning in one domain affects that in another …

Purpose: We review a series of experiments aimed at studying pitch processing in music
and speech. These studies were conducted with musician and non musician adults and …

Individuals with music training in early childhood show enhanced processing of musical
sounds, an effect that generalizes to speech processing. However, the conclusions drawn …