Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children
The benefits in speech-in-noise perception, language and cognition brought about by extensive musical training in adults and children have been demonstrated in a number of cross-sectional studies. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether one year of school-delivered musical training, consi...
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| author | Douglas MacCutcheon Douglas MacCutcheon Christian Füllgrabe Renata Eccles Renata Eccles Jeannie van der Linde Jeannie van der Linde Clorinda Panebianco Robert Ljung |
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| description | The benefits in speech-in-noise perception, language and cognition brought about by extensive musical training in adults and children have been demonstrated in a number of cross-sectional studies. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether one year of school-delivered musical training, consisting of individual and group instrumental classes, was capable of producing advantages for speech-in-noise perception and phonological short-term memory in children tested in a simulated classroom environment. Forty-one children aged 5–7 years at the first measurement point participated in the study and either went to a music-focused or a sport-focused private school with an otherwise equivalent school curriculum. The children’s ability to detect number and color words in noise was measured under a number of conditions including different masker types (speech-shaped noise, single-talker background) and under varying spatial combinations of target and masker (spatially collocated, spatially separated). Additionally, a cognitive factor essential to speech perception, namely phonological short-term memory, was assessed. Findings were unable to confirm that musical training of the frequency and duration administered was associated with a musicians’ advantage for either speech in noise, under any of the masker or spatial conditions tested, or phonological short-term memory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bbcd3d5b536140c498e01f18d9eaf41c2022-12-22T02:41:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-01-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02865480240Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old ChildrenDouglas MacCutcheon0Douglas MacCutcheon1Christian Füllgrabe2Renata Eccles3Renata Eccles4Jeannie van der Linde5Jeannie van der Linde6Clorinda Panebianco7Robert Ljung8Department of Building, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Högskolan i Gävle, Gävle, SwedenDepartment of Music, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaSchool of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United KingdomDepartment of Music, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Music, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Music, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Building, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Högskolan i Gävle, Gävle, SwedenThe benefits in speech-in-noise perception, language and cognition brought about by extensive musical training in adults and children have been demonstrated in a number of cross-sectional studies. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether one year of school-delivered musical training, consisting of individual and group instrumental classes, was capable of producing advantages for speech-in-noise perception and phonological short-term memory in children tested in a simulated classroom environment. Forty-one children aged 5–7 years at the first measurement point participated in the study and either went to a music-focused or a sport-focused private school with an otherwise equivalent school curriculum. The children’s ability to detect number and color words in noise was measured under a number of conditions including different masker types (speech-shaped noise, single-talker background) and under varying spatial combinations of target and masker (spatially collocated, spatially separated). Additionally, a cognitive factor essential to speech perception, namely phonological short-term memory, was assessed. Findings were unable to confirm that musical training of the frequency and duration administered was associated with a musicians’ advantage for either speech in noise, under any of the masker or spatial conditions tested, or phonological short-term memory.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02865/fullspeech in noisephonological short-term memorymusical trainingchildrencognition |
| spellingShingle | Douglas MacCutcheon Douglas MacCutcheon Christian Füllgrabe Renata Eccles Renata Eccles Jeannie van der Linde Jeannie van der Linde Clorinda Panebianco Robert Ljung Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children Frontiers in Psychology speech in noise phonological short-term memory musical training children cognition |
| title | Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children |
| title_full | Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children |
| title_fullStr | Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children |
| title_short | Investigating the Effect of One Year of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument on Speech-in-Noise Perception and Phonological Short-Term Memory in 5-to-7-Year-Old Children |
| title_sort | investigating the effect of one year of learning to play a musical instrument on speech in noise perception and phonological short term memory in 5 to 7 year old children |
| topic | speech in noise phonological short-term memory musical training children cognition |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02865/full |
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