Evaluating predisposition and training in shaping the musician's brain: the need for a developmental perspective

Increased engagement of the cognitive control network associated with music training in children during an fMRI Stroop task

(2017) Matthew Sachs et al.   PLoS One

Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

(2016) Zeynep M Saygin et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Neural correlates of accelerated auditory processing in children engaged in music training

(2016) Assal Habibi et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Dissociation of Neural Networks for Predisposition and for Training-Related Plasticity in Auditory-Motor Learning

(2015) Sibylle C. Herholz et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Genetic Changes Shaping the Human Brain

(2015) Byoung-Il Bae et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Listening to the Brainstem: Musicianship Enhances Intelligibility of Subcortical Representations for Speech

(2015) M. W. Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents

(2015) Kimberly G Noble et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The Infancy of the Human Brain

(2015) G. Dehaene-Lambertz et al.   NEURON

Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality

(2015) B. Gingras et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interhemispheric transcallosal connectivity between the left and right planum temporale predicts musicianship, performance in temporal speech processing, and functional specialization

(2014) Stefan Elmer et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Size and Synchronization of Auditory Cortex Promotes Musical, Literacy, and Attentional Skills in Children

(2014) A. Seither-Preisler et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Music Enrichment Programs Improve the Neural Encoding of Speech in At-Risk Children

(2014) N. Kraus et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians

(2014) Jennifer Zuk et al.   PLoS One

Differential Adaptation of Descending Motor Tracts in Musicians

(2013) Theodor Rüber et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Can nonlinguistic musical training change the way the brain processes speech? The expanded OPERA hypothesis

(2013) Aniruddh D. Patel   HEARING RESEARCH

Inter-individual differences in audio-motor learning of piano melodies and white matter fiber tract architecture

(2013) Annerose Engel et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Early Musical Training Is Linked to Gray Matter Structure in the Ventral Premotor Cortex and Auditory–Motor Rhythm Synchronization Performance

(2013) Jennifer Anne Bailey et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Early Musical Training and White-Matter Plasticity in the Corpus Callosum: Evidence for a Sensitive Period

(2013) C. J. Steele et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

When right is all that is left: plasticity of right-hemisphere tracts in a young aphasic patient

(2012) Lauryn Zipse et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Becoming musically enculturated: effects of music classes for infants on brain and behavior

(2012) Laurel J. Trainor et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Pediatric neuroimaging in early childhood and infancy: challenges and practical guidelines

(2012) Nora Raschle et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Music Training for the Development of Speech Segmentation

(2012) C. Francois et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Twelve Months of Active Musical Training in 8- to 10-Year-Old Children Enhances the Preattentive Processing of Syllabic Duration and Voice Onset Time

(2012) J. Chobert et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Musical Training as a Framework for Brain Plasticity: Behavior, Function, and Structure

(2012) Sibylle C. Herholz et al.   NEURON

Assessing Musical Abilities Objectively: Construction and Validation of the Profile of Music Perception Skills

(2012) Lily N. C. Law et al.   PLoS One

Sensitive periods in human development: Evidence from musical training

(2011) Virginia B. Penhune   CORTEX

Interventions Shown to Aid Executive Function Development in Children 4 to 12 Years Old

(2011) A. Diamond et al.   SCIENCE

Music training for the development of auditory skills

(2010) Nina Kraus et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Cortical structure predicts success in performing musical transformation judgments

(2010) Nicholas E.V. Foster et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Music Making as a Tool for Promoting Brain Plasticity across the Life Span

(2010) Catherine Y. Wan et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Rhythm synchronization performance and auditory working memory in early- and late-trained musicians

(2010) Jennifer A. Bailey et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Training-induced Neuroplasticity in Young Children

(2009) Gottfried Schlaug et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Evidence for Plasticity in White-Matter Tracts of Patients with Chronic Broca's Aphasia Undergoing Intense Intonation-based Speech Therapy

(2009) Gottfried Schlaug et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development

(2009) K. L. Hyde et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

White matter plasticity in the corticospinal tract of musicians: A diffusion tensor imaging study

(2009) Adrian Imfeld et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Neuroanatomical Correlates of Musicianship as Revealed by Cortical Thickness and Voxel-Based Morphometry

(2008) P. Bermudez et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity

(2008) Sylvain Moreno et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Listening to Musical Rhythms Recruits Motor Regions of the Brain

(2008) J. L. Chen et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Conventional rhythms enhance infants' and adults' perception of musical patterns

(2008) Sandra E. Trehub et al.   CORTEX

Gray matter density and white matter integrity in pianists’ brain: A combined structural and diffusion tensor MRI study

(2008) Ying Han et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Moving on Time: Brain Network for Auditory-Motor Synchronization is Modulated by Rhythm Complexity and Musical Training

(2007) Joyce L. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE