Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Marina Martin-Moratinos, Marcos Bella-Fernandez, Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla
Summary: ADHD has a significant impact on daily life, and music therapy can help reduce symptoms. Incorporating music into video games can be a useful tool in evaluating and treating ADHD. Numerous studies have shown the beneficial effects of music therapy in different domains of ADHD.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Michel Habib
Summary: The author proposed an extended temporal processing deficit hypothesis of dyslexia and revisited the hypothesis in light of new clinical perspective and recent experimental work. The article suggested distinguishing three groups of children who fail to learn to read and identified three distinct patterns of miswiring or disconnectivity in specific brain networks related to compromised reading skills acquisition based on brain imaging information available to date. The general model proposed by the author suggests a common mechanism of temporal uncoupling between various disconnected-and/or mis-wired-processors to account for distinct forms of specific learning disorders, with reading impairment being a constant feature.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Courtney B. Hilton, Micah B. Goldwater
Summary: This study investigates the impact of hierarchical organization of speech rhythm on syntactic comprehension. The experiments show that when syntactic cues align with metrical context, participants have better understanding of the sentences. However, sensorimotor synchronization is disrupted when syntactic cues clash with metrical context.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Eita Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Yoshii
Summary: Most work on musical score models focuses on describing local sequential dependence of notes, but neglects the global repetitive structure. The Bayesian Markov models formulated by the authors effectively capture the repetitive structure of musical scores, providing a useful guide for transcribing music with unknown repetitive structures.
INFORMATION SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Valentin Begel, Simone Dalla Bella, Quentin Devignes, Madeline Vandenbergue, Marie-Pierre Lemaitre, Delphine Dellacherie
Summary: Developmental Dyslexia (DD) is a learning disorder associated with timing disorders, motor and cognitive dysfunctions. This study found that predictive timing skills contribute independently to DD, beyond other dysfunctions, making it a valuable tool for early diagnosis and remediation of DD.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Jonathan Cannon, Emelie Eldracher, Annie Cardinaux, Fatima Irfan, Lindsay Bungert, Cindy Li, Amanda O'Brien, Isaac Treves, Sidney Diamond, Pawan Sinha
Summary: This study explored the differences in auditory processing, attention, and prediction in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results showed that utilizing predictive timing cues can improve their detection of faint sounds. The ASD group showed differences in temporally predictive cues compared to the non-ASD group.
Article
Linguistics
David Temperley
Summary: This review presents a highly selective survey of the connections between music and language, discussing their differences, similarities, specific interactions, and controversial connections. It also explores a little-explored topic regarding the use of repetition in music and language.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF LINGUISTICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Hyun-Woong Kim, Katie E. Mclaren, Yune Sang Lee
Summary: There is an association between music and language, particularly rhythm and grammar skills in children. Exposure to regular musical rhythm can improve subsequent syntactic language performance in children. However, two experiments with English-speaking children did not find any rhythmic priming effect.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Maria Kyrtsoudi, Christos Sidiras, Georgios Papadelis, Vasiliki Maria Iliadou
Summary: This study aimed to assess auditory perception in Greek musicians and compare it with non-musicians. The results showed that musical training enhances elements of auditory processing and can be used as an additional rehabilitation approach during auditory training.
Article
Neurosciences
Bijurika Nandi, Avery Ostrand, Vinith Johnson, Tiffany J. Ford, Adam Gazzaley, Theodore P. Zanto
Summary: This study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying temporal attention and whether exogenous and endogenous forms of temporal attention share common neural sources. The results show that rhythm training improves exogenous temporal attention, but does not transfer to endogenous temporal attention abilities, suggesting that different brain regions are involved in these two forms of temporal attention.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Antonio Criscuolo, Michael Schwartze, Luis Prado, Yaneri Ayala, Hugo Merchant, Sonja A. Kotz
Summary: Many animal species have the ability to detect basic rhythms and produce rhythmic behavior, but the ability to process complex rhythms and synchronize rhythmic behavior seems to be species-specific. This study investigates whether our closest ancestors, macaque monkeys, show similar innate tendencies to sample the acoustic environment without task instructions and training. The results show that both macaque monkeys and humans have neural oscillations that encode and track the timing of auditory events, indicating convergence in temporal regularity processing in the acoustic environment.
PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Toshiki Iwabuchi, Michiru Makuuchi
Summary: This study found selective involvement of a subregion of the left ATL in semantic/pragmatic processing, without a main effect of syntax in the left ATL subregion that was more responsive to natural sentences than meaningless sentences.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Biology
Fleur L. Bouwer, Vivek Nityananda, Andrew A. Rouse, Carel ten Cate
Summary: Research indicates that rhythmic abilities are prevalent in both human and non-human animals, but the specific rhythmic behaviors observed in different species may not be clearly related to cognitive mechanisms. Current laboratory experiments mainly focus on probing the cognitive architecture underlying rhythmic abilities through controlled stimuli and tasks, yet there are still many gaps in knowledge about rhythmic abilities. Future research should carefully select paradigms and critically consider the multifaceted abilities underlying rhythmic behavior.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Hadas Dahary, Charlotte Rimmer, Eve-Marie Quintin
Summary: Many autistic children have musical interests and good musical skills, such as pitch and melodic memory. They may also perceive temporal regularities in music. By comparing the musical beat perception skills of autistic and neurotypical children, we examined whether autistic children are perceptually sensitive to the primary beat of music.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eniko Ladanyi, Agnes Lukacs, Judit Gervain
Summary: Research has shown that exposure to regular musical rhythm can enhance grammatical processing in preschool-aged children, specifically in Hungarian-speaking children, suggesting potential benefits of integrating rhythmic priming into speech-language therapy.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)