...Sean Hutchins Adult musicians tend to outperform nonmusicians in a variety of language and language-relevant tasks. Moreover, children who take music lessons will show an increased ability in several types of language skills. However, it is still unclear what the time course of these developmental...

... is necessary for song to be perceived in speech is unclear. One possibility is that by default pitch is not a salient attribute of speech in non-tonal languages, as spectral information is more vital for determining meaning. However, repetition may satiate lexical processing, increasing pitch salience...

... memory verbal learning language cognitive improvement BENEFITS OF MUSIC ON VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY: HOW AND WHEN DOES IT WORK? LAURA FERRERI Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain LAURA VERGA Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences...

...Niels Chr. Hansen; Makiko Sadakata; Marcus Pearce Research has used the normalized pairwise variability index (nPVI) to examine relationships between musical rhythm and durational contrast in composers’ native languages. Applying this methodology, linearly increasing nPVI in Austro-German...

... to process sounds related to both music and language, it is not surprising that the auditory expertise gained over years of consistent music practice fine-tunes the human auditory system in a comprehensive fashion, strengthening neurobiological and cognitive underpinnings of both music and speech processing...

... of using music training for remediation in children with specific language and reading disorders. © 2009 By the Regents of the University of California dyslexia language learning music plasticity Music Training and Musical Experience 279 WHAT DO MUSIC TRAINING AND MUSICAL EXPERIENCE TEACH US...