Investigation of the link between higher order cognitive functions and handedness

Beratis, Ion; Rabavilas, Andreas D.; Kyprianou, Miltiades; Papadimitriou, George N.; Papageorgiou, Charalabos

doi:10.1080/13803395.2013.778231

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“…In addition, a higher degree of right-handedness was associated with somewhat worse performance on the updating tasks, fitting with other evidence that left-or mixed-handedness is associated with better EF performance (e.g., Beratis et al, 2013;Gunstad, Spitznagel, Luyster, Cohen, & Paul, 2007).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…The combined rating on these ladders can predict health-related outcomes as well as, or better than, other more objective measures of SES (e.g., Singh-Manoux, Marmot, & Adler, 2005). Given evidence (albeit mixed) for a greater prevalence of lefthandedness in musicians (Aggleton, Kentridge, & Good, 1994), handedness effects on musical ability (e.g., Kopiez, Galley, & Lee, 2006;Jäncke, Schlaug, & Steinmetz, 1997), and handedness effects on cognitive tasks (also with somewhat mixed findings; e.g., Beratis, Rabavilas, Kyprianou, Papadimitriou, & Papageorgiou, 2013;Nettle, 2003;Powell, Kemp, & García-Finaña, 2012), we administered the Edinburgh handedness inventory (Oldfield, 1971). Finally, bilingualism has been found to predict aspects of EF (e.g., Bialystok, Craik, Green, & Gollan, 2009), so we administered the Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q; Marian et al, 2007): participants were considered bilingual if they reported speaking a second language with a mean self-rated proficiency of at least 5 on a 1 to 10 scale (where 5 is defined as "adequate"), averaged across ratings of ability in second language speaking, understanding, and reading.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and executive functions

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A growing body of research suggests that musical experience and ability are related to a variety of cognitive abilities, including executive functioning (EF). However, it is not yet clear if these relationships are limited to specific components of EF, limited to auditory tasks, or reflect very general cognitive advantages. This study investigated the existence and generality of the relationship between musical ability and EFs by evaluating the musical experience and ability of a large group of participants and investigating whether this predicts individual differences on three different components of EF – inhibition, updating, and switching – in both auditory and visual modalities. Musical ability predicted better performance on both auditory and visual updating tasks, even when controlling for a variety of potential confounds (age, handedness, bilingualism, and socio-economic status). However, musical ability was not clearly related to inhibitory control and was unrelated to switching performance. These data thus show that cognitive advantages associated with musical ability are not limited to auditory processes, but are limited to specific aspects of EF. This supports a process-specific (but modality-general) relationship between musical ability and non-musical aspects of cognition.GRAMMY Foundatio

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confidence: 83%

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Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and executive functions

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“…Moreover, left-handedness may facilitate the performance of cognitive tasks requiring greater engagement of right-hemisphere resources, such as visuospatial tasks (e.g. Beratis, Rabavilas, Kyprianou, Papadimitriou, & Papageorgiou, 2013;D'Andrea & Spiers, 2005). However, linguistic skills were not measured specifically in these studies and interest was confined to handedness for noncommunicative activities.…”

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Hand preferences in preschool children: Reaching, pointing and symbolic gestures

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Jover

et al. 2015

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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Manual asymmetries emerge very early in development and several researchers have reported a significant right-hand bias in toddlers although this bias fluctuates depending on the nature of the activity being performed. However, little is known about the further development of asymmetries in preschoolers. In this study, patterns of hand preference were assessed in 50 children aged 3-5 years for different activities, including reaching movements, pointing gestures and symbolic gestures. Contrary to what has been reported in children before 3 years of age, we did not observe any difference in the mean handedness indices obtained in each task. Moreover, the asymmetry of reaching was found to correlate with that of pointing gestures, but not with that of symbolic gestures. In relation to the results reported in infants and adults, this study may help deciphering the mechanisms controlling the development of handedness by providing measures of manual asymmetries in an age range that has been so far rather neglected.

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“…For example, socioeconomic status (SES) correlates with both musical participation (Corrigall, Schellenberg, & Misura, 2013;Kaushal, Magnuson, & Waldfogel, 2011;Norton et al, 2005;Southgate & Roscigno, 2009) and EF abilities (Hackman & Farah, 2009). Handedness is associated with aspects of musical ability (Kopiez, Galley, & Lee, 2006) and with EF performance (Beratis, Rabavilas, Kyprianou, Papadimitriou, & Papageorgiou, 2013), and intelligence (IQ) is linked with both musical training (Schellenberg, 2004;2006) and EF abilities (Friedman et al, 2006). Because these potentially confounding factors have not consistently been assessed, it is not yet clear if specific cognitive abilities are related to musical training or if these relationships reflect differences in other factors.…”

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“…Handedness. Because handedness has been associated with aspects of musical ability (Kopiez et al, 2006) and performance in EF tasks (Beratis et al, 2013), participants completed the Edinburgh handedness inventory (Oldfield, 1971), in which they indicated which hand they preferred to use during various activities (e.g., writing, drawing, or using scissors). This provided a continuous measure of laterality, scored on a scale from -100 (completely left handed) to +100…”

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confidence: 99%

Individual differences in musical training and executive functions: A latent variable approach

Okada¹,

Slevc²

2018

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Learning and performing music draw on a host of cognitive abilities, and previous research postulates that musicians might have advantages in related cognitive processes. One such aspect of cognition that may be related to musical training is executive functions (EFs), a set of top-down processes that regulate behavior and cognition according to task demands.Previous studies investigating the link between musical training and EFs have yielded mixed results and are difficult to compare. In part, this is because most studies look at only one specific cognitive process, and even studies looking at the same process use different experimental tasks.Furthermore, most correlational studies use different categorizations of "musician" and "nonmusician" for comparisons, so generalizing findings is difficult. The current study provides a more comprehensive assessment of how individual differences in musical training relate to latent measures of three separable aspects of EFs. We administered a well-validated EF battery containing multiple tasks tapping EF components of inhibition, shifting, and working memory updating (Friedman et al., 2008) and a comprehensive, continuous measure of musical training and sophistication (Müllensiefen et al., 2014). Musical training correlated with some individual EF tasks involving inhibition and working memory updating, but not individual tasks involving shifting. However, musical training only predicted the latent variable of working memory updating, but not latent variables of inhibition or shifting after controlling for IQ, socioeconomic status, and handedness. Although these data are correlational, they nonetheless suggest that musical experience places particularly strong demands specifically on working memory updating processes.

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Investigation of the link between higher order cognitive functions and handedness

Cited by 49 publications

References 51 publications

Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and executive functions

Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and executive functions

Hand preferences in preschool children: Reaching, pointing and symbolic gestures

Individual differences in musical training and executive functions: A latent variable approach

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