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The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children

Minna HuotilainenMinna HuotilainenPaavo AlkuVesa VälimäkiMari TervaniemiMari TervaniemiPaulo A. A. EsquefRiia MilovanovRiia Milovanov

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MaleAuditory perceptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectForeign languageAptitudeMismatch negativityContingent Negative VariationMultilingualismMusicalPronunciation050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciencesChild Development0302 clinical medicineHumansAttention0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesChildLanguagemedia_commonCommunicationVerbal Behaviorbusiness.industry4. EducationGeneral Neuroscience05 social sciencesElectroencephalographyMusicalityAcoustic StimulationDuration (music)Auditory PerceptionEvoked Potentials AuditoryFemaleAptitudePsychologybusinessMusic030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychology

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We examined 10-12-year old elementary school children's ability to preattentively process sound durations in music and speech stimuli. In total, 40 children had either advanced foreign language production skills and higher musical aptitude or less advanced results in both musicality and linguistic tests. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings of the mismatch negativity (MMN) show that the duration changes in musical sounds are more prominently and accurately processed than changes in speech sounds. Moreover, children with advanced pronunciation and musicality skills displayed enhanced MMNs to duration changes in both speech and musical sounds. Thus, our study provides further evidence for the claim that musical aptitude and linguistic skills are interconnected and the musical features of the stimuli could have a preponderant role in preattentive duration processing.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.063