El Sistema-inspired ensemble music training is associated with changes in children's neurocognitive functional integration: preliminary ERP evidence.
Children (aged 9-12) training in an El Sistema-inspired program (OrKidstra) and a matched comparison group participated in an auditory Go/No-Go task while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Entire-sweep waveform patterns correlated with known ERP peaks associated with executive and other cognitive functions and indicated that the spread of neural activity in the initial 250 ms of executive attention processing (pre-P300) showed higher level of topographical overlap in OrKidstra children. In these children, late potentials (post-P300) concurrent with response control were more widely distributed and temporally coordinated. Intensive ensemble music training, we suggest, may be associated with neuroplastic changes facilitating integration of neural information.
['Hedayati|Nina|N|', 'Schibli|Kylie|K|', "D'Angiulli|Amedeo|A|"]
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation D000704:Analysis of Variance D001307:Auditory Perception D001931:Brain Mapping D002648:Child D003071:Cognition D003657:Decision Making D004569:Electroencephalography D005071:Evoked Potentials D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007266:Inhibition, Psychological D008297:Male D009146:Music D013663:Teaching
music training children ERPs attention El Sistema executive functions