Musical expertise, bilingualism, and executive functioning
- PMID: 19331508
- DOI: 10.1037/a0012735
Musical expertise, bilingualism, and executive functioning
Abstract
The authors investigated whether intensive musical experience leads to enhancements in executive processing, as has been shown for bilingualism. Young adults who were bilinguals, musical performers (instrumentalists or vocalists), or neither completed 3 cognitive measures and 2 executive function tasks based on conflict. Both executive function tasks included control conditions that assessed performance in the absence of conflict. All participants performed equivalently for the cognitive measures and the control conditions of the executive function tasks, but performance diverged in the conflict conditions. In a version of the Simon task involving spatial conflict between a target cue and its position, bilinguals and musicians outperformed monolinguals, replicating earlier research with bilinguals. In a version of the Stroop task involving auditory and linguistic conflict between a word and its pitch, the musicians performed better than the other participants. Instrumentalists and vocalists did not differ on any measure. 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.
(c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.
Similar articles
-
Executive control in a modified antisaccade task: Effects of aging and bilingualism.J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2006 Nov;32(6):1341-54. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1341. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2006. PMID: 17087588
-
Bilingualism and Musicianship Enhance Cognitive Control.Neural Plast. 2016;2016:4058620. doi: 10.1155/2016/4058620. Epub 2015 Dec 27. Neural Plast. 2016. PMID: 26819764 Free PMC article.
-
Musical training, bilingualism, and executive function: a closer look at task switching and dual-task performance.Cogn Sci. 2015 Jul;39(5):992-1020. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12183. Epub 2014 Oct 7. Cogn Sci. 2015. PMID: 25289704
-
Understanding the benefits of musical training: effects on oscillatory brain activity.Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jul;1169:133-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04589.x. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009. PMID: 19673769 Review.
-
Conflict-induced behavioural adjustment: a clue to the executive functions of the prefrontal cortex.Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009 Feb;10(2):141-52. doi: 10.1038/nrn2538. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009. PMID: 19153577 Review.
Cited by
-
Music training is related to late ERP modulation and enhanced performance during Simon task but not Stroop task.Front Hum Neurosci. 2024 Apr 22;18:1384179. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1384179. eCollection 2024. Front Hum Neurosci. 2024. PMID: 38711801 Free PMC article.
-
Bilingual disadvantages are systematically compensated by bilingual advantages across tasks and populations.Sci Rep. 2024 Jan 24;14(1):2107. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52417-5. Sci Rep. 2024. PMID: 38267616 Free PMC article.
-
Exploring the role of singing, semantics, and amusia screening in speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians.Cogn Process. 2024 Feb;25(1):147-161. doi: 10.1007/s10339-023-01165-x. Epub 2023 Oct 18. Cogn Process. 2024. PMID: 37851154 Free PMC article.
-
Musical experience prior to traumatic exposure as a resilience factor: a conceptual analysis.Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 27;14:1220489. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1220489. eCollection 2023. Front Psychol. 2023. PMID: 37599747 Free PMC article. Review.
-
The Relationship between Formal Music Training and Conflict Control: An ERP Study.Brain Sci. 2023 Apr 26;13(5):723. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13050723. Brain Sci. 2023. PMID: 37239195 Free PMC article.
Publication types
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources