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Cognitive differences between older adult instrumental musicians: Benefits of continuing to play:
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This paper assessed cognition across all major domains in older adults in instrumental music and found that ongoing cognitive engagement in late life may help maintain cognitive functioning, and assessed the effect of cognitive engagement on older adult instrumental music players.Abstract:
Previous research suggests that ongoing cognitive engagement in late life may help maintain cognitive functioning. We assessed cognition across all major domains in older adult instrumental musicia...read more
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Musical practice as an enhancer of cognitive function in healthy aging - A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Musicianship-Related Structural and Functional Cortical Features Are Preserved in Elderly Musicians
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TL;DR: A general reduction of gray matter metrics distinguished the elderly from the young subjects at the whole-brain level, corresponding to widespread natural brain atrophy, and the elderly musicians maintained musicianship-specific structural and functional cortical features.
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Theories of cognitive aging: a look at potential benefits of music training on the aging brain
T. M. Vanessa Chan,Claude Alain +1 more
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Music and language side by side in the brain: a PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences
TL;DR: A comparative model of shared, parallel, and distinctive features of the neural systems supporting music and language is outlined, assuming thatMusic and language show parallel combinatoric generativity for complex sound structures but distinctly different informational content (semantics).
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Musical expertise, bilingualism, and executive functioning.
TL;DR: Results demonstrate that extended musical experience enhances executive control on a nonverbal spatial task, as previously shown for bilingualism, but also enhances control in a more specialized auditory task, although the effect of bilingualism did not extend to that domain.
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Cognitive functioning in healthy older adults aged 64-81: a cohort study into the effects of age, sex, and education.
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TL;DR: Even in healthy individuals in this restricted age range, there is a clear, age-related decrease in performance on executive functioning, verbal fluency, verbal memory, and cognitive speed tasks.
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The Relation Between Instrumental Musical Activity and Cognitive Aging
TL;DR: Results suggest a strong predictive effect of high musical activity throughout the life span on preserved cognitive functioning in advanced age, and a discussion of how musical participation may enhance cognitive aging is provided along with other alternative explanations.
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Effects of Practice and Experience on the Arcuate Fasciculus: Comparing Singers, Instrumentalists, and Non-Musicians
TL;DR: It is suggested that long-term vocal–motor training might lead to an increase in volume and microstructural complexity of specific white-matter tracts connecting regions that are fundamental to sound perception, production, and its feedforward and feedback control which can be differentiated from a more general musician effect.