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Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing
BACKGROUND: Musical ability has always been linked to enhanced cognitive and intellectual skills. We were interested in the relation between musical ability and short-time cognitive processing as measured by event-related potentials, in particular in visual processing, since previous studies have al...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0200-4 |
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author | Faßhauer, Caroline Frese, Achim Evers, Stefan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Musical ability has always been linked to enhanced cognitive and intellectual skills. We were interested in the relation between musical ability and short-time cognitive processing as measured by event-related potentials, in particular in visual processing, since previous studies have already suggested such a link for acoustic cognitive processing. We measured auditory and visual event-related potentials as elicited by an oddball paradigm in 20 healthy subjects (10 musicians and 10 non-musicians; 10 female; mean age 24 ± 2 years). In addition, the Seashore test and a test developed by the authors to detect relevant amusia, the latter one with a high ceiling effect, were also applied. RESULTS: The most important finding was that there is a significant linear correlation between musical ability as measured by these tests and the P3 latencies of both the auditory and visual event-related potentials. Furthermore, musicians showed shorter latencies of the event-related potentials than non-musicians. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that musical ability as measured by neuropsychological tests is associated with improved short-time cognitive processing both in the auditory and, surprisingly, also in the visual domain. |
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spelling | pubmed-45742202015-09-19 Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing Faßhauer, Caroline Frese, Achim Evers, Stefan BMC Neurosci Research Article BACKGROUND: Musical ability has always been linked to enhanced cognitive and intellectual skills. We were interested in the relation between musical ability and short-time cognitive processing as measured by event-related potentials, in particular in visual processing, since previous studies have already suggested such a link for acoustic cognitive processing. We measured auditory and visual event-related potentials as elicited by an oddball paradigm in 20 healthy subjects (10 musicians and 10 non-musicians; 10 female; mean age 24 ± 2 years). In addition, the Seashore test and a test developed by the authors to detect relevant amusia, the latter one with a high ceiling effect, were also applied. RESULTS: The most important finding was that there is a significant linear correlation between musical ability as measured by these tests and the P3 latencies of both the auditory and visual event-related potentials. Furthermore, musicians showed shorter latencies of the event-related potentials than non-musicians. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that musical ability as measured by neuropsychological tests is associated with improved short-time cognitive processing both in the auditory and, surprisingly, also in the visual domain. BioMed Central 2015-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4574220/ /pubmed/26377548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0200-4 Text en © Faßhauer et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Faßhauer, Caroline Frese, Achim Evers, Stefan Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
title | Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
title_full | Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
title_fullStr | Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
title_full_unstemmed | Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
title_short | Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
title_sort | musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0200-4 |
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