Transfer of Training between Music and Speech: Common Processing, Attention, and Memory

Besson, Mireille; Chobert, Julie; Marie, Céline

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00094

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“…It should be noted in this respect that, although vowel length is not contrastive in French, controls nevertheless performed as well as musicians in this task, possibly because the natural difference in vowel duration was large enough (270 msec) to be easily perceived by nonmusician controls. Taken together, these findings add support to the hypothesis of transfer effects between music and speech (Asaridou & McQueen, 2013;Besson et al, 2011), with near transfer for acoustic cues common to music and speech such as frequency and with far transfer to unfamiliar linguistic cues such as aspiration.…”

Section: Cascading Effects From Perception To Word Learningsupporting

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Professional Music Training and Novel Word Learning: From Faster Semantic Encoding to Longer-lasting Word Representations

Dittinger

Barbaroux

D’Imperio

et al. 2016

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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On the basis of previous results showing that music training positively influences different aspects of speech perception and cognition, the aim of this series of experiments was to test the hypothesis that adult professional musicians would learn the meaning of novel words through picture-word associations more efficiently than controls without music training (i.e., fewer errors and faster RTs). We also expected musicians to show faster changes in brain electrical activity than controls, in particular regarding the N400 component that develops with word learning. In line with these hypotheses, musicians outperformed controls in the most difficult semantic task. Moreover, although a frontally distributed N400 component developed in both groups of participants after only a few minutes of novel word learning, in musicians this frontal distribution rapidly shifted to parietal scalp sites, as typically found for the N400 elicited by known words. Finally, musicians showed evidence for better long-term memory for novel words 5 months after the main experimental session. Results are discussed in terms of cascading effects from enhanced perception to memory as well as in terms of multifaceted improvements of cognitive processing due to music training. To our knowledge, this is the first report showing that music training influences semantic aspects of language processing in adults. These results open new perspectives for education in showing that early music training can facilitate later foreign language learning. Moreover, the design used in the present experiment can help to specify the stages of word learning that are impaired in children and adults with word learning difficulties. positively influences different aspects of speech perception and cognition, the aim of this series of experiments was to test the hypothesis that adult professional musicians would learn the meaning of novel words through picture-word associations more efficiently than controls without music training (i.e., fewer errors and faster RTs). We also expected musicians to show faster changes in brain electrical activity than controls, in particular regarding the N400 component that develops with word learning. In line with these hypotheses, musicians outperformed controls in the most difficult semantic task. Moreover, although a frontally distributed N400 component developed in both groups of participants after only a few minutes of novel word learning, in musicians this frontal distribution rapidly shifted to parietal scalp sites, as typically found for the N400 elicited by known words. Finally, musicians showed evidence for better long-term memory for novel words 5 months after the main experimental session. Results are discussed in terms of cascading effects from enhanced perception to memory as well as in terms of multifaceted improvements of cognitive processing due to music training. To our knowledge, this is the first report showing that music training influences semantic aspects of language processing in adults. These results o...

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Section: Cascading Effects From Perception To Word Learningsupporting

confidence: 66%

Professional Music Training and Novel Word Learning: From Faster Semantic Encoding to Longer-lasting Word Representations

Dittinger

Barbaroux

D’Imperio

et al. 2016

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…This early focus on acoustical features converges with the evidence reviewed here suggesting that the processing of music and speech overlaps in posterior auditory cortex (basic acoustic processing) and becomes more differentiated anteriorly (domain-specific representation) [24,40]. However, the expanded OPERA hypothesis [28] incorporates the idea of shared cognitive processing into the discussion of neural overlap, based on the proposals that musical training enhances auditory attention and working memory [52,53]. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that attention sharpens sensory encoding in primary brain areas (see [54] for a meta-analysis of attention-related modulations in the auditory cortex).…”

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Neural overlap in processing music and speech

Peretz

Vuvan

Lagrois

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 12 to a theme issue 'Biology, cognition and origins of musicality'. Neural overlap in processing music and speech, as measured by the coactivation of brain regions in neuroimaging studies, may suggest that parts of the neural circuitries established for language may have been recycled during evolution for musicality, or vice versa that musicality served as a springboard for language emergence. Such a perspective has important implications for several topics of general interest besides evolutionary origins. For instance, neural overlap is an important premise for the possibility of music training to influence language acquisition and literacy. However, neural overlap in processing music and speech does not entail sharing neural circuitries. Neural separability between music and speech may occur in overlapping brain regions. In this paper, we review the evidence and outline the issues faced in interpreting such neural data, and argue that converging evidence from several methodologies is needed before neural overlap is taken as evidence of sharing.

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“…Indeed, assignment to musical training has been found to yield structural changes in auditory and motor cortices that correlate with performance on melody discrimination and finger tapping tasks, respectively ( Although the above results suggest some transfer attributable to musical training (see also Lappe et al, 2008;Besson et al, 2011), one remaining question is whether the occurrence of transfer is selective to specific points in development. Can musical training-related cognitive differences persist beyond childhood?…”

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Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition

Carey

Rosen²,

Krishnan

et al. 2015

Cognition

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Performing musicians invest thousands of hours becoming experts in a range of perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. The duration and intensity of musicians' training -far greater than that of most educational or rehabilitation programs -provides a useful model to test the extent to which skills acquired in one particular context (music) generalize to different domains. Here, we asked whether the instrument-specific and more instrument-general skills acquired during professional violinists' and pianists' training would generalize to superior performance on a wide range of analogous (largely non-musical) skills, when compared to closely matched non-musicians.Violinists and pianists outperformed non-musicians on fine-grained auditory psychophysical measures, but surprisingly did not differ from each other, despite the different demands of their instruments. Musician groups did differ on a tuning system perception task: violinists showed clearest biases towards the tuning system specific to their instrument, suggesting that long-term experience leads to selective perceptual benefits given a training-relevant context. However, we found only weak evidence of group differences in non-musical skills, with musicians differing marginally in one measure of sustained auditory attention, but not significantly on auditory scene analysis or multi-modal sequencing measures. Further, regression analyses showed that this sustained auditory attention metric predicted more variance in one auditory psychophysical measure than did musical expertise. Our findings suggest that specific musical expertise may yield distinct perceptual outcomes within contexts close to the area of training. Generalization of expertise to relevant cognitive domains may be less clear, particularly where the task context is non-musical.Keywords: expertise; musicians; perception; cognition; generalization GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY IN MUSICAL EXPERTISE EFFECTS 3 Highlights 1. We studied generalization of expertise to auditory perceptual and broader cognitive skills.2. Musician groups perceived auditory signal differences more finely than non-musicians.3. Musician groups differed in fine perception given a training-relevant context. 4. Musical expertise did not strongly generalize to several cognitive measures (e.g., auditory scene analysis).5. 5. Sustained attention predicted variance in fine perception of AM depth above expertise. GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY IN MUSICAL EXPERTISE EFFECTS 4 Generality and Specificity in the Effects of Musical Expertise on Perception and CognitionPerceptual and cognitive skills can be shaped and enhanced through our experience with the world (e.g., Goldstone, 1999;Palmeri & Gauthier, 2004). Pursuit of expertise in a given domain is a particularly striking example: groups as diverse as chess masters, physicians, athletes and musicians spend thousands of hours training and practicing, honing perceptual, cognitive and motor skills critical to success in their field (see Ericsson, 2006;Palmeri et al., 2004; Chi, 200...

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Transfer of Training between Music and Speech: Common Processing, Attention, and Memory

Cited by 278 publications

References 143 publications

Professional Music Training and Novel Word Learning: From Faster Semantic Encoding to Longer-lasting Word Representations

Professional Music Training and Novel Word Learning: From Faster Semantic Encoding to Longer-lasting Word Representations

Neural overlap in processing music and speech

Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition

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