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Castro, S. L., Gaser, C., Martins, M. & Coimbra. D. (2022). A longitudinal study on the impact of music training on  children’s neurocognitive plasticity. Bial Foundation Symposium .

S. L. Castro et al.,  "A longitudinal study on the impact of music training on  children’s neurocognitive plasticity", in Bial Foundation Symp. , Porto, 2022

@misc{castro2022_1777338421495,
	author = "Castro, S. L. and Gaser, C. and Martins, M. and Coimbra. D.",
	title = "A longitudinal study on the impact of music training on  children’s neurocognitive plasticity",
	year = "2022"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - A longitudinal study on the impact of music training on  children’s neurocognitive plasticity
T2  - Bial Foundation Symposium 
AU  - Castro, S. L.
AU  - Gaser, C.
AU  - Martins, M.
AU  - Coimbra. D.
PY  - 2022
CY  - Porto
AB  - Background: Music training is a well-established model of brain plasticity. Most
studies compare professional musicians with non-musicians or probe correlates of
individual training in childhood, but neurocognitive effects of collective music training in
regular school classrooms remain poorly examined.

Aims: To inspect brain/cognition links in music- and language-related abilities in
children at the structural and connectivity levels, and to determine effects of a short
collective music training as compared to analogous training in sports and to a passive
control group.

Method: Longitudinal study with pre-test (T1), training, post-test (T2) and follow-up
(T3), in three groups of 8-year-old children: music, basketball and no specific training.
Children were matched on major cognitive and demographic variables and
pseudorandomly assigned to one of the groups. Behavioral measures on cognitive and
musical abilities, and on brain structural MRI and resting-state fMRI, were collected at
T1, T2 and T3.

Results: Learning effects were significant in all groups. Resting-state connectivity
revealed a link between sensorimotor systems and processing of emotional speech
prosody. Behavioural benefits driven by music training were near transfer effects in the
music domain and fine motor abilities; far transfer into simple arithmetics and
phonological decoding were also found. Music training induced changes in gray-matter
volume of the left cerebellum that correlated with gains in motor performance and with
rhythm discrimination at T1, and to higher connectivity between the auditory and
sensorimotor networks suggesting enhanced audiomotor coordination.

Conclusions: A resource-lean music training program was associated with near
transfer behavioral benefits and with plastic changes in gray matter volume and
functional neural connectivity.
ER  -