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The Linguistic Benefits of Musical Abilities

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Journal Trends Cogn Sci
Date 2007 Aug 19
PMID 17698406
Citations 40
Authors
Aniruddh D Patel
John R Iversen
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Abstract

Growing evidence points to a link between musical abilities and certain phonetic and prosodic skills in language. However, the mechanisms that underlie these relations are not well understood. A recent study by Wong et al. suggests that musical training sharpens the subcortical encoding of linguistic pitch patterns. We consider the implications of their methods and findings for establishing a link between musical training and phonetic abilities more generally.

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