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Brain Research Reveals Automatic Musical Memory Functions in Children

Mari TervaniemiVesa PutkinenMinna Huotilainen

subject

General NeuroscienceBrainMismatch negativityBrain researchMusicalGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyHistory and Philosophy of ScienceMemoryEvent-related potentialChild PreschoolSpecialization (functional)HumansMemory functionsPsychologyMusicCognitive psychology

description

Even though music has special meanings and values compared to other sounds, it is nonetheless processed in the brain via partly the same neural networks that are built to process all kinds of sounds. The development of these brain areas depends on the input: on the sounds that a child is exposed to and chooses to attend to. We present two brain research paradigms that can be used to assess the specialization of the brain for musical sounds, and show promising results with these paradigms in a group of young children who have music as their hobby.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2009-07-01Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04857.x