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One year of musical training affects development of auditory cortical-evoked fields in young childrenTakako Fujioka
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brain 129:2593-608. 2006..This transition could be related to establishing a neural network associated with sound categorization and/or involuntary attention, which can be altered by music learning experience...
Musical experience, plasticity, and maturation: issues in measuring developmental change using EEG and MEGLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:25-36. 2012..We use specific examples from our laboratory to illustrate the types of questions that can be answered with different data analysis techniques...- Becoming musically enculturated: effects of music classes for infants on brain and behaviorLaurel J Trainor
McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:129-38. 2012..We conclude that musical enculturation begins in infancy and that active participatory music making in a positive social setting accelerates enculturation... - Predictive information processing is a fundamental learning mechanism present in early development: evidence from infantsLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 83:256-8. 2012..Furthermore, mismatch responses change quickly with specific experience, suggesting that predictive coding reflects a powerful, early-developing learning mechanism... - Effects of musical training on the auditory cortex in childrenLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:506-13. 2003..These results are discussed with respect to potential benefits of early musical training as well as potential benefits of musical experience in aging... - Long-term memory for music: infants remember tempo and timbreLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Dev Sci 7:289-96. 2004..The results are consistent with an exemplar-based model of memory in infancy rather than one in which structural features are extracted and performance features forgotten... - Are there critical periods for musical development?Laurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 451, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 46:262-78. 2005..Much remains unknown about the mechanisms of interaction between genetic and experiential factors that create critical periods, but it is clear that there are multiple pathways for achieving musical expertise... - Understanding the benefits of musical training: effects on oscillatory brain activityLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:133-42. 2009..We conclude that musical training affects oscillatory networks in the brain associated with executive functions, and that superior executive functioning could enhance learning and performance in many cognitive domains... - The primal role of the vestibular system in determining musical rhythmLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour and the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cortex 45:35-43. 2009..These results imply that the vestibular system plays a primal role in the perception of musical rhythm... - Cortical plasticity in 4-month-old infants: specific effects of experience with musical timbresLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Brain Topogr 24:192-203. 2011..Together these results indicate that a relatively small amount of passive exposure to a particular timbre in infancy enhances representations of that timbre and leads to more precise pitch processing for that timbre... - Changes in auditory cortex and the development of mismatch negativity between 2 and 6 months of ageLaurel Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada ON L8S 4B2
Int J Psychophysiol 51:5-15. 2003..The results are considered with respect to layer-specific cortical maturation during this period... - Automatic and controlled processing of melodic contour and interval information measured by electrical brain activityLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
J Cogn Neurosci 14:430-42. 2002..The results indicate that even in the absence of musical training, the brain is set up to automatically encode music-specific melodic information, even when absolute pitch information is not available... - Pitch characteristics of infant-directed speech affect infants' ability to discriminate vowelsLaurel J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 9:335-40. 2002.... - Is infant-directed speech prosody a result of the vocal expression of emotion?L J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
Psychol Sci 11:188-95. 2000..We conclude that ID prosody itself is not special. What is special is the widespread expression of emotion to infants in comparison with the more inhibited expression of emotion in typical adult interactions... - Infants' and adults' use of duration and intensity cues in the segmentation of tone patternsL J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Percept Psychophys 62:333-40. 2000..Experiment 2 showed that an increase in intensity did not result in any systematic grouping at either age... - Effect of frequency ratio on infants' and adults' discrimination of simultaneous intervalsL J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 23:1427-38. 1997.... - Effects of harmonics on relative pitch discrimination in a musical contextL J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Percept Psychophys 58:704-12. 1996..When the harmonics did not fuse into a single percept (tones consisting of the fundamental and one of 5, 6, 7, or 8), there was no effect of ratio simplicity... - Enhancement of neuroplastic P2 and N1c auditory evoked potentials in musiciansAntoine Shahin
Unit of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
J Neurosci 23:5545-52. 2003..Enhanced P2 and N1c responses in musicians need not be considered genetic or prenatal markers for musical skill... - Finding the pitch of the missing fundamental in infantsChao He
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
J Neurosci 29:7718-8822. 2009..Thus, cortical representations of the pitch of the missing fundamental emerge between 3 and 4 months of age, indicating that there is a profound change in auditory perception for pitch in early infancy... - Maturation of cortical mismatch responses to occasional pitch change in early infancy: effects of presentation rate and magnitude of changeChao He
McMaster University, Canada
Neuropsychologia 47:218-29. 2009.... - Modulation of P2 auditory-evoked responses by the spectral complexity of musical soundsAntoine Shahin
Department of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Neuroreport 16:1781-5. 2005..The results suggest that P2 reflects the specific features of acoustic stimuli experienced during musical practice and point to functional differences in P2 and N1 that relate to their underlying mechanisms... - Effects of spatial separation and stimulus probability on the event-related potentials elicited by occasional changes in sound locationRanil R Sonnadara
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Brain Res 1071:175-85. 2006..The early latency of MMN for changes in sound location is interpreted in the context of an early-warning system to alert the organism to new sound sources in the environment... - Measuring temporal resolution in infants using mismatch negativityL J Trainor
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
Neuroreport 12:2443-8. 2001..We are now in a position to study the development of cross-channel temporal resolution and adaptation effects in infancy, and to examine how these abilities in infancy relate to later language acquisition... - The development of temporal resolution: between-channel gap detection in infants and adultsNicholas A Smith
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
J Speech Lang Hear Res 49:1104-13. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Unlike within-channel gap detection, the central temporal processing required for between-channel gap detection is still immature at 6 months of age... - Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) and heart rate in response to affective infant-directed (ID) speech in 9-month-old infantsDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Brain Cogn 65:14-21. 2007..Findings are discussed in terms of how increases in frontal EEG power in response to different affective intensity may reflect the cognitive aspects of emotional processing across sensory domains in infancy... - Enhancement of auditory cortical development by musical experience in childrenAntoine Shahin
Unit of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4KI Canada
Neuroreport 15:1917-21. 2004..The findings set into relief a general process by which the neocortical synaptic matrix is shaped by an accumulation of specific auditory experiences... - Occasional changes in sound location enhance middle latency evoked responsesRanil R Sonnadara
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Brain Res 1076:187-92. 2006..Our data suggest that any such processing is in fact preceded by activation in primary auditory cortex... - Development of frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart rate (ECG) responses to affective musical stimuli during the first 12 months of post-natal lifeLouis A Schmidt
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4K1, Ontario, Canada
Brain Cogn 52:27-32. 2003..Findings suggest that there is a clear developmental change in the effect of music on brain activity in the first year, with music having a "calming" influence on infants by the end of the first year of life... - Effects of Kindermusik training on infants' rhythmic enculturationDavid W Gerry
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
Dev Sci 13:545-51. 2010..We conclude that musical classes for infants can accelerate the development of culture-specific metrical perception... - Effects of musical training on key and harmony perceptionKathleen A Corrigall
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:164-8. 2009..Using simple tasks, we found that formal music training influences key and harmony perception in 3- to 6-year-olds, and that even nonmusicians as young as 3 years have some knowledge of key membership and harmony... - Music and learning-induced cortical plasticityChristo Pantev
The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:438-50. 2003.... - Beta and gamma rhythms in human auditory cortex during musical beat processingTakako Fujioka
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:89-92. 2009..We propose that auditory beta and gamma oscillations have different roles in musical beat encoding and auditory-motor interaction... - Memory for melody: infants use a relative pitch codeJudy Plantinga
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Cognition 98:1-11. 2005.... - Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool childrenSima H Anvari
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L8S 4K1
J Exp Child Psychol 83:111-30. 2002.... - Feeling the beat: movement influences infant rhythm perceptionJessica Phillips-Silver
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Science 308:1430. 2005..Visual information is not necessary for the effect, indicating that it likely reflects a strong, early-developing interaction between auditory and vestibular information in the human nervous system... - Mismatch responses to pitch changes in early infancyChao He
McMaster University, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 19:878-92. 2007.... - Stimulus, task, and learning effects on measures of temporal resolution: implications for predictors of language outcomeNicholas A Smith
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
J Speech Lang Hear Res 51:1630-42. 2008..The goal of this study was to examine the effects of stimulus properties, experimental task, and perceptual learning on listeners' gap detection performance... - Hearing what the body feels: auditory encoding of rhythmic movementJessica Phillips Silver
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
Cognition 105:533-46. 2007..Parallel results from adults and infants suggest that the movement-sound interaction develops early and is fundamental to music processing throughout life... - Development of infant mismatch responses to auditory pattern changes between 2 and 4 months oldChao He
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Eur J Neurosci 29:861-7. 2009..This indicates that the MMN response to a change in pattern at 4 months reflects the activation of a change-detection mechanism similarly as in adults... - Melody recognition by two-month-old infantsJudy Plantinga
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Acoust Soc Am 125:EL58-62. 2009..The results show that with minimal familiarization, 2-month-old infants remember a short melody and can discriminate it from a similar melody... - Vestibular influence on auditory metrical interpretationJessica Phillips-Silver
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L8S 4K1
Brain Cogn 67:94-102. 2008..We discuss possible cortical and subcortical sites for the integration of auditory and vestibular inputs that may underlie the interaction between movement and auditory metrical rhythm perception... - Perceived intensity effects in the octave illusionRanil R Sonnadara
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Percept Psychophys 67:648-58. 2005..In Experiment 5, we showed that this difference in perceived loudness disappears if the interval between the ILLU and IC stimuli is sufficiently large... - Long-term memory for pitch in six-month-old infantsJudy Plantinga
Psychology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:520-1. 2003..Infants remembered the relative pitch of the melodies, but the absolute pitch was either not remembered or not a particularly salient attribute... - Automatic encoding of polyphonic melodies in musicians and nonmusiciansTakako Fujioka
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1578-92. 2005.... - Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on developmentErin E Hannon
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154 5030, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:466-72. 2007.... - Musical training enhances automatic encoding of melodic contour and interval structureTakako Fujioka
The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1010-21. 2004..No hemispheric difference was found in either group. The results suggest that musical training enhances the ability to automatically register abstract changes in the relative pitch structure of melodies... - Simultaneous pitches are encoded separately in auditory cortex: an MMNm studyTakako Fujioka
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, University of Toronto, Canada
Neuroreport 19:361-6. 2008.... - Music training leads to the development of timbre-specific gamma band activityAntoine J Shahin
University of California, Davis Center for Mind and Brain, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA
Neuroimage 41:113-22. 2008..Evoked gamma activity may index the physical properties of a sound and is modulated by acoustical training, while induced GBA may reflect higher perceptual learning and is shaped by specific auditory experiences... - Cortical plasticity induced by short-term unimodal and multimodal musical trainingClaudia Lappe
Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Munster, 48149 Munster, Germany
J Neurosci 28:9632-9. 2008....