Abstract:
:Predictions from a structured cortical model led us to test the hypothesis that music training enhances young children's spatial-temporal reasoning. Seventy-eight preschool children participated in this study. Thirty-four children received private piano keyboard lessons, 20 children received private computer lessons, and 24 children provided other controls. Four standard, age-calibrated, spatial reasoning tests were given before and after training; one test assessed spatial-temporal reasoning and three tests assessed spatial recognition. Significant improvement on the spatial-temporal test was found for the keyboard group only. No group improved significantly on the spatial recognition tests. The magnitude of the spatial-temporal improvement from keyboard training was greater than one standard deviation of the standardized test and lasted at least one day, a duration traditionally classified as long term. This represents an increase in time by a factor of over 100 compared to a previous study in which listening to a Mozart piano sonata primed spatial-temporal reasoning in college students. This suggests that music training produces long-term modifications in underlying neural circuitry in regions not primarily concerned with music and might be investigated using EEG. We propose that an improvement of the magnitude reported may enhance the learning of standard curricula, such as mathematics and science, that draw heavily upon spatial-temporal reasoning.
journal_name
Neurol Resjournal_title
Neurological researchauthors
Rauscher FH,Shaw GL,Levine LJ,Wright EL,Dennis WR,Newcomb RLdoi
10.1080/01616412.1997.11740765subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-02-01 00:00:00pages
2-8issue
1eissn
0161-6412issn
1743-1328journal_volume
19pub_type
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1179/016164103101202237
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1995.11758611
更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.2000.11741051
更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1179/1743132815Y.0000000030
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1986.11739749
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1986.11739736
更新日期:1986-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1995.11740317
更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1997.11740785
更新日期:1997-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1179/1743132814Y.0000000350
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1998.11740543
更新日期:1998-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.2018.1564188
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1179/016164101101199388
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1179/016164101101199162
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.2017.1358937
更新日期:2017-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1986.11739756
更新日期:1986-12-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1179/174313206X153815
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
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doi:10.1179/016164104225017802
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1179/016164101101199324
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1993.11740103
更新日期:1993-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1179/016164101101198208
更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1179/016164110X12761752770177
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1179/016164107X208095
更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.1992.11740033
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.2017.1281196
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Neurological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/01616412.2016.1145914
更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00