CEREBRAL CORTEX: Does music and foreign language training make a difference in improving auditory function at school age?

In adults, music and language share many neurocognitive functions, but how do they interact in the developing brain?

Mari Tervaniemi et al.
compared the effects of music and foreign language training on auditory neurocognition in Chinese children
aged 8-11 .

Mari Tervaniemi et al.
compared the effects of music and foreign language training on auditory neurocognition in Chinese children
aged 8-11 .

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The study provides music- and foreign-language-based training programs through randomized controlled trials
.

Auditory event-related potentials were recorded before and after the one-year extracurricular activity

Table.
MMN amplitude (μV) (mean (SD)) of Fz and latency (ms) before and after training in the control, English, and music groups in the melodic paradigm

Table.
MMN amplitude (μV) (mean (SD)) of Fz and latency (ms) before and after training in the control, English, and music groups in the melodic paradigm

They found that language promotes auditory-predictive brain processes in early childhood more than music
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This facilitation was most pronounced in pitch encoding when the experimental paradigm was associated with music

Language better than music promotes auditory prediction brain processes in early childhood Knowing is comparable to music in a way .

A foreign language-based extracurricular group program promotes children's auditory prediction process better than a music program A foreign language-based extracurricular group program promotes children's auditory prediction process better than a music program There is a transfer effect on the neural function acquired by the auditory (music/language) training program .
There is a strong link between the brain function of music and language .
There is a strong link between the brain functions of music and language .

 

original source

Mari Tervaniemi, Vesa Putkinen, Peixin Nie, Cuicui Wang, Bin Du, Jing Lu, Shuting Li, Benjamin Ultan Cowley, Tuisku Tammi, Sha Tao, Improved Auditory Function Caused by Music Versus Foreign Language Training at School Age: Is There a Difference? , Cerebral Cortex, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1 January 2022, Pages 63–75, https://doi.

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