The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

After a brief historical perspective of the relationship between language and music, we
review our work on transfer of training from music to speech that aimed at testing the general …

This chapter looks at a range of auditory display and sonification applications that have
tackled the problem of monitoring real-time data streams and concludes with some …

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 …

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 …

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

Learning to read proceeds smoothly for most children, yet others struggle to translate verbal
language into its written form. Poor readers often have a host of auditory, linguistic, and …

Psychophysiological evidence suggests that music and language are intimately coupled
such that experience/training in one domain can influence processing required in the other …

Musicians are often reported to have enhanced neurophysiological functions, especially in
the auditory system. Musical training is thought to improve nervous system function by …

While previous research has suggested that music training is associated with improvements
in various cognitive and linguistic skills, the mechanisms mediating or underlying these …