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Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? Longit...
Neves, L.; Martins, M.; Correia, A. I.; Castro, S. L.; Schellenberg, E. G.; Lima, C. F.Music training is widely claimed to enhance nonmusical abilities, yet causal evidence remains inconclusive. Moreover, research tends to focus on cognitive over socioemotional outcomes. In two studies, we investigated whether music training improves emotion recognition in voices and faces among school-aged children. We also examined music-training effects on musical abilities, motor skills (fine and gross), broa...
Individual differences in rhythm perception modulate music-related motor learni...
Martins, M.; Reis, A. M.; Gaser, C.; Castro, S. L.Rhythm and motor function are intrinsically linked to each other and to music, but the rhythm-motor interplay during music training, and the corresponding brain mechanisms, are underexplored. In a longitudinal training study with children, we examined the role of rhythm predisposition in the fine motor improvements arising from music training, and which brain regions would be implicated. Fifty-seven 8-year-olds...
Enhanced recognition of vocal emotions in individuals with naturally good music...
Correia, A. I.; Castro, S. L.; MacGregor, C.; Müllensiefen, D.; Schellenberg, E. G.; Lima, C. F.Music training is widely assumed to enhance several nonmusical abilities, including speech perception, executive functions, reading, and emotion recognition. This assumption is based primarily on cross-sectional comparisons between musicians and nonmusicians. It remains unclear, however, whether training itself is necessary to explain the musician advantages, or whether factors such as innate predispositions an...
Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic re...
Neves, L.; Correia, A. I.; Castro, S. L.; Martins, D.; Lima, C. F.It is often claimed that music training improves auditory and linguistic skills. Results of individual studies are mixed, however, and most evidence is correlational, precluding inferences of causation. Here, we evaluated data from 62 longitudinal studies that examined whether music training programs affect behavioral and brain measures of auditory and linguistic processing (N = 3928). For the behavioral data, ...
Rhythm but not melody processing helps reading via phonological awareness and p...
Sousa, J.; Martins, M.; Torres, N.; Castro, S. L.; Silva, S.Despite abundant evidence that music skills relate to enhanced reading performance, the mechanisms subtending this relation are still under discussion. The Temporal Sampling Framework (TSF) provides a well-defined explanation for the music-reading link: musical rhythm perception would relate to reading because it helps to encode speech units, which, in turn, is fundamental to reading. However, in spite of this ...
Gray matter correlates of reading fluency deficits: SES matters, IQ does not
Martins, M.; Reis, A. M.; Castro, S. L.; Gaser, C.Brain correlates of reading ability have been intensely investigated. Most studies have focused on single-word reading and phonological processing, but the brain basis of reading fluency remains poorly explored to date. Here, in a voxel-based morphometry study with 8-year-old children, we compared fluent readers (n = 18; seven boys) with dysfluent readers with normal IQ (n = 18; six boys) and with low IQ (n = 1...
Associations between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment i...
Neves, L.; Martins, M.; Correia, A. I.; Castro, S. L.; Lima, C. F.The human voice is a primary channel for emotional communication. It is often presumed that being able to recognize vocal emotions is important for everyday socioemotional functioning, but evidence for this assumption remains scarce. Here, we examined relationships between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children. The sample included 141 6- to 8-year-old children, and the emotion tas...
Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI): Portuguese version and asso...
Lima, C. F.; Correia, A. I.; Müllensiefen, D.; Castro, S. L.The Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) was recently proposed as a self-report measure of musical skills and behaviors in the general population. Although it is becoming a widely used tool, relatively little is known about its correlates, and adaptations into different languages will be crucial for cross-cultural comparisons and to allow for use beyond the original validation context. In this stu...
Distinguishing mild cognitive impairment from healthy aging and alzheimer’s dis...
Moreira, H. S.; Costa, A. S.; Machado, Á; Castro, S. L.; Lima, C. F.; Vicente, S. G.Executive functions are affected differently in healthy aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and evaluating them is important for differential diagnosis. The INECO Frontal Screening (IFS) is a brief neuropsychological screening tool, developed to assess executive dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders. Goals: We aimed to examine whether and how MCI patients can be differentia...
High emotional contagion and empathy are associated with enhanced detection of ...
Neves, L.; Cordeiro, C.; Scott, S. K.; Castro, S. L.; Lima, C. F.Nonverbal vocalisations such as laughter pervade social interactions, and the ability to accurately interpret them is an important skill. Previous research has probed the general mechanisms supporting vocal emotional processing, but the factors that determine individual differences in this ability remain poorly understood. Here, we ask whether the propensity to resonate with others’ emotions—as measured by trai...