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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...
Music training and nonmusical abilities
Schellenberg, E.; Lima, C. F.Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although correlational data highlight positive associations, experi- mental results are inconclusive, raising questions about causality. Does music training have far-transfer effects, or do preexisting factors determine who takes music lessons? All behavior reflects genetic and environmental in- fluences, but differences in empha...
Effects of music listening on cognition and affective state in older adults: A ...
Sella, E.; Vincenzi, M.; Carbone, E.; Schellenberg, E.; Lima, C. F.; Toffalini, E.; Borella, E.This systematic review and meta-analysis examined whether and how music listening impacts cognition and affect in healthy older adults, specifically considering the emotional connotations of music (happy- or sad-sounding music) and its presentation modality (background or prior to the tasks). Based on the PRISMA guidelines and preregistering in PROSPERO (CRD42022366520), we searched the Scopus, PsycInfo, and We...
Associations between music training and cognitive abilities: The special case o...
Vincenzi, M.; Correia, A. I.; Vanzella, P.; Pinheiro, A. P.; Lima, C. F.; Schellenberg, E. G.We sought to clarify the commonly accepted link between music training and cognitive ability. Professional musicians, nonprofessionals with music training, and musically untrained individuals (N = 642) completed measures of musical ability, personality, and general cognitive ability. Professional musicians scored highest on objective and self-report measures of musical ability. On personality measures, professi...
Blindness influences emotional authenticity perception in voices: Behavioral an...
Sarzedas, J.; Lima, C. F.; Roberto, M. S.; Scott, S. K.; Pinheiro, A.; Conde, T.The ability to distinguish spontaneous from volitional emotional expressions is an important social skill. How do blind individuals perceive emotional authenticity? Unlike sighted individuals, they cannot rely on facial and body language cues, relying instead on vocal cues alone. Here, we combined behavioral and ERP measures to investigate authenticity perception in laughter and crying in individuals with early...
Self-awareness of musical ability
Correia, A. I.; Lima, C. F.; Schellenberg, E. G.We asked whether adults have accurate self-awareness of their musical ability, and whether such self-awareness relates to other individual differences. Participants (N = 256) rated how musical they were compared to their friends, colleagues, family, and the general population. They subsequently completed self-report measures of musical behaviors (Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index [Gold-MSI]) and personali...
Individual differences in musical ability among adults with no music training
Correia, A. I.; Vincenzi, M.; Vanzella, P.; Pinheiro, A.; Schellenberg, E. G.; Lima, C. F.Good musical abilities are typically considered to be a consequence of music training, such that they are studied in samples of formally trained individuals. Here, we asked what predicts musical abilities in the absence of music training. Participants with no formal music training (N = 190) completed the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index, measures of personality and cognitive ability, and the Musical Ear ...
Is musical expertise associated with self-reported foreign-language ability?
Schellenberg, E. G.; Correia, A. I.; Lima, C. F.Many claims have been made about links between musical expertise and language ability. Rhythm ability, in particular, has been shown to predict phonological, grammatical, and second-language (L2) abilities, whereas music training often predicts reading and speech-perception skills. Here, we asked whether musical expertise-musical ability and/or music training-relates to L2 (English) abilities of Portuguese nati...
Susceptibility to auditory hallucinations is associated with spontaneous but no...
Alderson-Day, B.; Moffatt, J.; Lima, C. F.; Krishnan, S.; Fernyhough, C.; Scott, S. K.; Denton, S.; Leong, I. Y. T.; Oncel, A. D.; Wu, Y.-L.Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs)—or hearing voices—occur in clinical and non-clinical populations, but their mechanisms remain unclear. Predictive processing models of psychosis have proposed that hallucinations arise from an over-weighting of prior expectations in perception. It is unknown, however, whether this reflects (i) a sensitivity to explicit modulation of prior knowledge or (ii) a pre-existing te...
Enhanced salience of musical sounds in singers and instrumentalists
Martins, I.; Lima, C. F.; Pinheiro, A. P.Music training has been linked to facilitated processing of emotional sounds. However, most studies have focused on speech, and less is known about musicians’ brain responses to other emotional sounds and in relation to instrument-specific experience. The current study combined behavioral and EEG methods to address two novel questions related to the perception of auditory emotional cues: whether and how long-te...