“…The group comparisons between pre‐intervention and post‐intervention showed significant improvements for the experimental group in almost all tests, especially the MMSE and the CDT, while the control group had stable performance in all tests. Considering these findings, we can argue that the cognitive music training programme improved participants' general cognitive functions, selective attention, planning and logic skills, and abilities related to access and lexical retrieval, according to the findings of previous studies (Brotons and Koger, ; François and Schön, ; Hegde, ; Romero‐Naranjo, ; Särkämö et al, ). In addition, the significant improvements of the experimental group in the CDT could be explained by improvements in anticipation processing linked to planning and logical ability stimulated by the music improvisation exercises (Biasutti, ).…”