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 …

Building on her earlier work,'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of
Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and …

Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although
correlational data highlight positive associations, experimental results are inconclusive …

Moving in synchrony to the beat is a fundamental component of musicality. Here we
conducted a genome-wide association study to identify common genetic variants associated …

Enhancing performance levels of athletes during training and competition is a desired goal
in sports. Quantifying training success is typically accompanied by performance diagnostics …

Of the three subtypes of attention outlined by the attentional subsystems model, alerting
(vigilance or arousal needed for task completion) and executive control (the ability to inhibit …

Attention and working memory (WM) are core components of executive functions, and they
can be enhanced by training. One activity that has shown to improve executive functions is …

Purpose To investigate if, regardless of language background (tonal or non-tonal),
musicians may show stronger CP than non-musicians; To examine if native speakers of …

Previous literature has shown cognitive improvements related to musical training. Attention
is one cognitive aspect in which musicians exhibit improvements compared to non …

Studies suggest that long-term music experience enhances the brain's ability to segregate
speech from noise. Musicians'“speech-in-noise (SIN) benefit” is based largely on perception …