PLoS ONE,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
19(11), С. e0313218 - e0313218
Опубликована: Ноя. 7, 2024
Positive
relationships
between
the
home
literacy
environment
and
children's
language
development
are
well-established.
However,
existing
literature
has
overlooked
potential
contributions
of
music
environment.
Initial
evidence
indicates
positive
emerging
skills,
yet
it
remains
unclear
whether
how
environments
may
be
related.
Furthermore,
parents'
sense
self-efficacy
is
known
to
impact
provided
for
their
children.
Despite
being
linked
with
environment,
parental
not
been
directly
investigated
in
relation
In
present
study,
124
caregivers
preschoolers
completed
a
one-time
online
survey
about
self-efficacy.
Partial
correlations
hierarchical
regressions
reveal
that
amount
exposure
associated
qualitative
(not
quantitative)
aspects
specifically
use
interactive
techniques
during
shared
reading.
Moreover,
music.
Overall,
these
findings
support
need
further
examine
meaningfully
contribute
an
enriching
learning
especially
development.
Royal Society Open Science,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
12(1)
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
In
our
multicultural
and
interconnected
world,
the
ability
to
learn
new
languages
is
important.
However,
there
are
significant
differences
in
how
successfully
adults
can
aspects
of
non-native
languages.
Given
robust
relationships
between
musical
native-language
processing,
might
also
contribute
successful
second-language
acquisition.
while
several
studies
have
assessed
this
relationship
various
ways,
consistency
robustness
learning
remains
unclear.
Thus,
we
synthesized
184
effects
across
57
independent
(
n
=3181)
with
a
variance
estimation
multivariate
meta-analysis,
narratively
summarized
partial
correlation
12
studies.
The
available
evidence
suggests
that
indeed
positively
related
learning,
even
after
factoring
publication
bias
revealed
by
meta-analysis.
Although
future
work
more
diverse
participant
populations
methodologies
needed
further
disentangle
relationship,
it
apparent
individuals
better
generally
at
learning.
Abstract
Dancing
to
music
is
ancient
and
widespread
in
human
cultures.
While
dance
shows
great
cultural
diversity,
it
often
involves
nonvocal
rhythmic
movements
synchronized
musical
beats
a
predictive
tempo-flexible
manner.
To
date,
the
only
nonhuman
animals
known
spontaneously
move
this
way
are
parrots.
This
paper
proposes
that
human-parrot
similarities
movement
neurobiology
of
advanced
vocal
learning
hold
clues
evolutionary
foundations
dance.
The
proposal
draws
on
recent
research
parrot
by
Jarvis
colleagues
cortical
model
for
speech
motor
control
Hickock
colleagues.
These
two
lines
work
synthesized
suggest
gene
regulation
changes
associated
with
evolution
dorsal
laryngeal
pitch
pathway
ancestral
humans
fortuitously
strengthened
auditory-parietal
connections
support
beat-based
processing.
More
generally,
aims
explain
how
why
strong
forebrain
auditory-motor
integration
service
learned
led
capacity
proclivity
synchronize
beat.
specifies
brain
pathways
implicated
origins
dancing
leads
testable
predictions
suggestions
future
research.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
1521(1), С. 140 - 154
Опубликована: Янв. 30, 2023
Abstract
Uncovering
the
genetic
underpinnings
of
musical
ability
and
engagement
is
a
foundational
step
for
exploring
their
wide‐ranging
associations
with
cognition,
health,
neurodevelopment.
Prior
studies
have
focused
on
using
twin
family
designs,
demonstrating
moderate
heritability
phenotypes.
The
current
study
used
genome‐wide
complex
trait
analysis
polygenic
score
(PGS)
approaches
utilizing
genotype
data
to
examine
influences
two
musicality
traits
(rhythmic
perception
music
engagement)
in
N
=
1792
unrelated
adults
Vanderbilt
Online
Musicality
Study.
Meta‐analyzed
estimates
(including
replication
sample
Swedish
individuals)
were
31%
rhythmic
12%
self‐reported
engagement.
A
PGS
derived
from
recent
beat
synchronization
predicted
both
(
β
0.11)
0.19)
our
sample,
suggesting
that
underlying
also
influence
individuals’
discrimination
aptitude
degree
which
they
engage
music.
Cross‐trait
analyses
revealed
modest
contribution
PGSs
several
nonmusical
(from
cognitive,
personality,
circadian
chronotype
domains)
individual
differences
−0.06
0.07).
This
work
sheds
light
relationship
between
architecture
rhythm
processing,
synchronization,
engagement,
other
traits.
Abstract
This
paper
introduces
the
“NEBULA101
-
Neuro-behavioural
Understanding
of
Language
Aptitude”
dataset,
which
comprises
behavioural
and
brain
imaging
data
from
101
healthy
adults
to
examine
individual
differences
in
language
cognition.
Human
language,
a
multifaceted
behaviour,
varies
significantly
among
individuals,
at
different
processing
levels.
Recent
advances
cognitive
science
have
embraced
an
integrated
approach,
combining
studies
explore
these
comprehensively.
The
NEBULA101
dataset
offers
structural,
diffusion-weighted,
task-based
resting-state
MRI
data,
alongside
extensive
linguistic
non-linguistic
measures
complex
interaction
cognition
highly
multilingual
sample.
By
sharing
this
multimodal
we
hope
promote
research
on
neuroscience
multilingualism,
enabling
field
deepen
its
understanding
multivariate
panorama
ultimately
contributing
open
science.
Frontiers in Psychology,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
16
Опубликована: Март 21, 2025
This
paper
reviews
musicology,
linguistics,
cognitive
psychology,
and
neuroscience
research
on
the
importance
of
music
in
developing
human
speech
cognition.
It
cites
from
several
scientific
fields
how
brain
processes
reacts
to
melody,
rhythm,
harmony,
loudness,
dynamics
types
articulation
timbre.
also
discusses
musical
concepts
prosodic
features
such
as
intonation,
rhythm
stress
related
linguistic
terminology
summarises
results
earlier
two
systems
interact
strengthen
or
weaken
an
individual’s
ability
function
without
nurturing
stimulation.
Music
is
important
preventive
therapeutic
factor
for
life.
The
author
describes
interplay
between
language
nervous
system,
improving
hindering
communication
it
affects
us
personally
impacts
societal
mental
health.
Music
and
language
are
both
forms
of
communication
universally
observed
across
human
societies,
prompting
researchers
to
investigate
why
how
they
evolved.
Such
research
initially
focused
on
the
biological
evolution
capacities
create
perceive
music;
later
work
has
been
increasingly
tackling
cultural
angle
study
mechanisms
processes
driving
diversity
regularities
music
language.
In
this
chapter,
we
review
seminal
studies
We
group
into
observational
(e.g.,
phylogenetic
analysis),
experimental
transmission
chains),
simulation
agent-based
models),
music-language
relationships
song/speech
melody/prosody).
Furthermore,
highlight
key
ideas
that
each
discipline
can
learn
from
other
promising
topics
encourage
collaborative
work.
particular,
argue
more
direct
comparisons
will
help
better
understand
commonalities
differences
in
their
evolution.
This
includes
parallels
(or
lack
thereof)
cognitive
motor
constraints
memorability,
ease
vocalization),
vertical/horizontal
with/independent
populations),
underlying
bases
vocal
learning).
Integrating
emerging
field
with
larger
literature
enrich
our
understanding
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
1522(1), С. 5 - 14
Опубликована: Фев. 27, 2023
Abstract
New
interdisciplinary
research
into
genetic
influences
on
musicality
raises
a
number
of
ethical
and
social
issues
for
future
avenues
public
engagement.
The
historical
intersection
music
cognition
eugenics
heightens
the
need
to
vigilantly
weigh
potential
risks
benefits
these
studies
use
their
outcomes.
Here,
we
bring
together
diverse
disciplinary
expertise
(complex
trait
genetics,
cognition,
musicology,
bioethics,
developmental
psychology,
neuroscience)
interpret
guide
findings
from
recent
studies.
We
discuss
framework
incorporating
principles
ethically
socially
responsible
conduct
genetics
each
stage
lifecycle:
study
design,
implementation,
applications,
communication.
