A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children
Authors: Riia Milovanov, Minna Huotilainen, Paulo A. A. Esquef, Paavo Alku, Vesa Välimäki, MariTervaniemi
Publisher: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
Publication year: 2009
Journal: Neuroscience Letters
Journal name in source: NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Journal acronym: NEUROSCI LETT
Volume: 460
Issue: 2
First page : 161
Last page: 165
Number of pages: 5
ISSN: 0304-3940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.063
Abstract
We examined 10-12-year old elementary school children's ability to preattentively process sound durations in music and speech stimuli. In total, 40 children had either advanced foreign language production skills and higher musical aptitude or less advanced results in both musicality and linguistic tests. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings of the mismatch negativity (MMN) show that the duration changes in musical sounds are more prominently and accurately processed than changes in speech sounds. Moreover, children with advanced pronunciation and musicality skills displayed enhanced MMNs to duration changes in both speech and musical sounds. Thus, our study provides further evidence for the claim that musical aptitude and linguistic skills are interconnected and the musical features of the stimuli could have a preponderant role in preattentive duration processing. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
We examined 10-12-year old elementary school children's ability to preattentively process sound durations in music and speech stimuli. In total, 40 children had either advanced foreign language production skills and higher musical aptitude or less advanced results in both musicality and linguistic tests. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings of the mismatch negativity (MMN) show that the duration changes in musical sounds are more prominently and accurately processed than changes in speech sounds. Moreover, children with advanced pronunciation and musicality skills displayed enhanced MMNs to duration changes in both speech and musical sounds. Thus, our study provides further evidence for the claim that musical aptitude and linguistic skills are interconnected and the musical features of the stimuli could have a preponderant role in preattentive duration processing. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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