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Investigating the effect of one year of learning to play a musical instrument on speech-in-noise perception and phonological short-term memory in 5-to-7-year-old children
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posted on 2020-02-17, 14:20 authored by Douglas MacCutcheon, Christian Fullgrabe, Renate Eccles, Jeannie van der Linde, Clorinda Panebianco, Robert LjungThe benefits in speech-in-noise perception, language and cognition brought about by extensive musical training in adults and children have been demonstrated in a number of cross-sectional studies. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether one year of school-delivered musical training, consisting of individual and group instrumental classes, was capable of producing advantages for speech-in-noise perception and phonological short-term memory in children tested in a simulated classroom environment. Forty-one children aged 5-7 years at the first measurement point participated in the study and either went to a music-focused or a sport-focused private school with an otherwise equivalent school curriculum. The children's ability to detect number and color words in noise was measured under a number of conditions including different masker types (speech-shaped noise, single-talker background) and under varying spatial combinations of target and masker (spatially collocated, spatially separated). Additionally, a cognitive factor essential to speech perception, namely phonological short-term memory, was assessed. Findings were unable to confirm that musical training of the frequency and duration administered was associated with a musicians' advantage for either speech in noise, under any of the masker or spatial conditions tested, or phonological short-term memory.
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Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (IB2017-7004)
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- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Frontiers in PsychologyVolume
10Pages
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Frontiers MediaVersion
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Frontiers Media under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2019-12-03Publication date
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1664-1078Publisher version
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Dr Christian Fullgrabe . Deposit date: 15 February 2020Article number
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