An Infant's Question on COVID-19 and Music: Should I Attend My Online Classes?

Papatzikis, Efthymios

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.771050

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“…[13][14][15][16][17] The great interest in music's relevance to neuroplasticity led us to find links of its underlying neuronal mechanisms with essential adaptive functions, such as emotional communication, social bonding, and mate selection. [18][19][20][21] It also led us to find evidence related to "therapeutic" traits or biological and cognitive paths of development [22][23][24][25][26][27] evidence that may even suggest far-transfer effects, according to some studies (for a review, see Ref. 28).…”

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Quality standards and recommendations for research in music and neuroplasticity

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Agapaki

Selvan

et al. 2022

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Research on how music influences brain plasticity has gained momentum in recent years. Considering, however, the nonuniform methodological standards implemented, the findings end up being nonreplicable and less generalizable. To address the need for a standardized baseline of research quality, we gathered all the studies in the music and neuroplasticity field in 2019 and appraised their methodological rigor systematically and critically. The aim was to provide a preliminary and, at the minimum, acceptable quality threshold-and, ipso facto, suggested recommendations-whereupon further discussion and development may take place. Quality appraisal was performed on 89 articles by three independent raters, following a standardized scoring system. The raters' scoring was cross-referenced following an inter-rater reliability measure, and further studied by performing multiple ratings comparisons and matrix analyses. The results for methodological quality were at a quite good level (quantitative articles: mean = 0.737, SD = 0.084; qualitative articles: mean = 0.677, SD = 0.144), following a moderate but statistically significant level of agreement between the raters (W = 0.44, χ 2 = 117.249, p = 0.020). We conclude that the standards for implementation and reporting are of high quality; however, certain improvements are needed to reach the stringent levels presumed for such an influential interdisciplinary scientific field.

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Quality standards and recommendations for research in music and neuroplasticity

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Selvan

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Key Challenges and Future Directions When Running Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Research Protocols with Newborns: A Music and Language EEG Feasibility Study

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Although many musical intervention studies exist in the wider framework of neuroscience and psychology, the preliminary importance of feasibility studies is rarely discussed. Adding to this fact the limited research existing on the therapeutic and restorative potential of music exposure during early developmental periods, pushed us to concentrate on investigating newborns’ perception of music and its impact on the brain. Here, we explore the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) approach when measuring and comparing the neurophysiological perception of music versus language on the brainstem of newborns using auditory brainstem response (ABR). Twenty-five healthy full-term infants were recruited, eight of which were measured within their first 10 days postpartum. The evaluation of the study’s feasibility appealed to five main objectives that essentially answer the question: Can our protocol work? Each objective proposes questions based on Orsmond and Cohn’s guiding framework, designed to assess, and assist feasibility in understanding barriers toward a study’s success. Our results justify that newborns are well capable of undergoing the study and given meticulous considerations and improvements on the intervention resources. The procedure’s communication and technical obstacles are resoluble. Moreover, assimilation of external factors to adapt, such as the culture variation and the ABR protocol implementation are necessary. The study was well received in the selected region (Middle East), and the recording procedure showed potential outcomes for a comprehensive RCT.

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An Infant's Question on COVID-19 and Music: Should I Attend My Online Classes?

Cited by 2 publications

References 36 publications

Quality standards and recommendations for research in music and neuroplasticity

Quality standards and recommendations for research in music and neuroplasticity

Key Challenges and Future Directions When Running Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Research Protocols with Newborns: A Music and Language EEG Feasibility Study

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