Music Training for Development of Auditory Skills

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Student Reseach Committee .MSc Student of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background and Aim: The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have attracted many researchers, which is evident from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public. Neuroscience research has shown that music training leads to changes throughout the cortical and sub-cortical pathways of auditory system that prime musicians for listening challenges beyond music processing as seen in the processing of speech stimuli. In the present study, we have focused on the effects of music training for development of auditory skills especially in children and their education system in school.
Materials and Methods: In order to review the latest literature about the effects of music training on the development of auditory processing and brain plasticity since 2000, selected PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, ProQuest databases were searched.
Results: At one glance, we may assume that speech and music processing are so different because they are processed in separate brain areas (speech in the left hemisphere and music in the right hemisphere). But the truth is something else. We use the same cognitional and comprehension features of cortical and sub-cortical pathways to process speech and music. Music training induces changes in the auditory system, which is not specific to music processing only, it also improved speech processing. Music training can be used for those children suffering from disease affecting speech processing.

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The Scientific Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 4
January and February 2018
Pages 268-277

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  • Receive Date: 26 August 2016
  • Revise Date: 27 December 2016
  • Accept Date: 29 April 2017
  • First Publish Date: 22 December 2017

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