Putkinen , V , Huotilainen , M & Tervaniemi , M 2019 , ' Neural Encoding of Pitch Direction Is Enhanced in Musically Trained Children and Is Related to Reading Skills ' , Frontiers in Psychology , vol. 10 , 1475 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01475
Title: | Neural Encoding of Pitch Direction Is Enhanced in Musically Trained Children and Is Related to Reading Skills |
Author: | Putkinen, Vesa; Huotilainen, Minna; Tervaniemi, Mari |
Contributor organization: | Cognitive Brain Research Unit Department of Education AGORA for the study of social justice and equality in education -research centre Brain, Music and Learning |
Date: | 2019-07-24 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 7 |
Belongs to series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01475 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/305347 |
Abstract: | Musical training in childhood has been linked to enhanced sound encoding at different stages of the auditory processing. In the current study, we used auditory event-related potentials to investigate cortical sound processing in 9- to 15-year-old children (N = 88) with and without musical training. Specifically, we recorded the mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a responses in an oddball paradigm consisting of standard tone pairs with ascending pitch and deviant tone pairs with descending pitch. A subsample of the children (N = 44) also completed a standardized test of reading ability. The musically trained children showed a larger P3a response to the deviant sound pairs. Furthermore, the amplitude of the P3a correlated with a pseudo-word reading test score. These results corroborate previous findings on enhanced sound encoding in musically trained children and are in line with studies suggesting that neural discrimination of spectrotemporal sound patterns is predictive of reading ability. |
Subject: |
mismatch negativity
musical training P3a reading brain development MISMATCH NEGATIVITY AUDITORY-CORTEX DISCRIMINATION ABILITIES RESPONSES DURATION SPEECH MMN 515 Psychology |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | cc_by |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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