Brain research reveals automatic musical memory functions in children

Minna Huotilainen; Vesa  Putkinen; Mari Tervaniemi

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04857.x

Brain research reveals automatic musical memory functions in children

Minna Huotilainen, Vesa Putkinen, Mari Tervaniemi

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Abstract

Even though music has special meanings and values compared to other sounds, it is nonetheless processed in the brain via partly the same neural networks that are built to process all kinds of sounds. The development of these brain areas depends on the input: on the sounds that a child is exposed to and chooses to attend to. We present two brain research paradigms that can be used to assess the specialization of the brain for musical sounds, and show promising results with these paradigms in a group of young children who have music as their hobby.

Original language	English
Journal	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume	1169
Pages (from-to)	178-181
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0077-8923
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04857.x
Publication status	Published - 2009
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

515 Psychology

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