Institut de neurosciences des systèmes, INSERM and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Cereb Cortex. 2013 Sep;23(9):2038-43. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs180. Epub 2012 Jul 10.
The role of music training in fostering brain plasticity and developing high cognitive skills, notably linguistic abilities, is of great interest from both a scientific and a societal perspective. Here, we report results of a longitudinal study over 2 years using both behavioral and electrophysiological measures and a test-training-retest procedure to examine the influence of music training on speech segmentation in 8-year-old children. Children were pseudo-randomly assigned to either music or painting training and were tested on their ability to extract meaningless words from a continuous flow of nonsense syllables. While no between-group differences were found before training, both behavioral and electrophysiological measures showed improved speech segmentation skills across testing sessions for the music group only. These results show that music training directly causes facilitation in speech segmentation, thereby pointing to the importance of music for speech perception and more generally for children's language development. Finally these results have strong implications for promoting the development of music-based remediation strategies for children with language-based learning impairments.
音乐训练在促进大脑可塑性和发展高级认知技能方面的作用，特别是语言能力，从科学和社会角度来看都非常有趣。在这里，我们报告了一项为期两年的纵向研究结果，该研究使用行为和电生理测量以及测试-训练-再测试程序，来研究音乐训练对 8 岁儿童言语分割的影响。儿童被随机分配到音乐或绘画训练组，并接受测试，以测试他们从连续的无意义音节流中提取无意义单词的能力。虽然在训练前没有发现组间差异，但只有音乐组的行为和电生理测量在整个测试过程中都显示出言语分割技能的提高。这些结果表明，音乐训练直接促进了言语分割，从而指出了音乐对言语感知的重要性，更广泛地说，对儿童的语言发展也很重要。最后，这些结果对促进基于音乐的矫正策略的发展具有重要意义，这些策略针对的是有语言学习障碍的儿童。
