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

dc.contributor.authorMacCutcheon, Douglas
dc.contributor.authorFullgrabe, Christian
dc.contributor.authorEccles, Renata
dc.contributor.authorVan der Linde, Jeannie
dc.contributor.authorPanebianco-Warrens, Clorinda Rosanna
dc.contributor.authorLjung, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-27T07:49:43Z
dc.date.available2020-05-27T07:49:43Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-10
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentMusicen_ZA
dc.description.departmentSpeech-Language Pathology and Audiologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2020en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.frontiersin.org/Psychologyen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMacCutcheon D, Füllgrabe C, Eccles R, van der Linde J, Panebianco C and Ljung R (2020) 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 10:2865. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02865.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02865
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/74744
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 MacCutcheon, Füllgrabe, Eccles, van der Linde, Panebianco and Ljung. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).en_ZA
dc.subjectSpeech in noiseen_ZA
dc.subjectPhonological short-term memoryen_ZA
dc.subjectMusical trainingen_ZA
dc.subjectChildrenen_ZA
dc.subjectCognitionen_ZA
dc.subject.otherMusic articles SDG-03
dc.subject.otherSDG-03: Good health and well-being
dc.subject.otherMusic articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherMusic articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.titleInvestigating 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 childrenen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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