Musical practice as an enhancer of cognitive function in healthy aging - A systematic review and meta-analysis

Autor: Mónica Triviño, Marisa Arnedo, Rafael Román-Caballero, Juan Lupiáñez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Aging
Physiology
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Healthy Aging
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Learning and Memory
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Cognitive decline
lcsh:Science
media_common
Cognitive Impairment
Multidisciplinary
Music psychology
Cognitive Neurology
Physics
05 social sciences
Statistics
Metaanalysis
Research Assessment
Systematic review
Neurology
Motor Skills
Physical Sciences
Cognitive psychology
Research Article
Systematic Reviews
media_common.quotation_subject
Cognitive Neuroscience
Research and Analysis Methods
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Memory
Perception
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Cognitive Dysfunction
Statistical Methods
Working Memory
Music Cognition
Working memory
Mechanism (biology)
lcsh:R
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Acoustics
Practice
Psychological
Cognitive Science
lcsh:Q
Physiological Processes
Neurocognitive
Bioacoustics
Organism Development
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Mathematics
Music
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 11, p e0207957 (2018)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Aging is accompanied by cognitive decline, although recent research indicates that the rate of decline depends on multiple lifestyle factors. One of such factors is musical practice, an activity that involves several sensory and motor systems and a wide range of high-level cognitive processes. This paper describes the first systematic review and meta-analysis, to our knowledge, of the impact of musical practice on healthy neurocognitive aging. The inclusion criteria for the review required that studies were empirical works in English or Spanish that they explored the effects of musical practice on older people; they included an assessment of cognitive functions and/or an assessment of brain status; and they included a sample of participants aged 59 years or older with no cognitive impairment or brain damage. This review led to the selection of 13 studies: 9 correlational studies involving older musicians and non-musicians and 4 experimental studies involving short-term musical training programs. The results of the meta-analysis showed cognitive and cerebral benefits of musical practice, both in domain-specific functions (auditory perception) and in other rather domain-general functions. Moreover, these benefits seem to protect cognitive domains that usually decline with aging and boost other domains that do not decline with aging. The origin of these benefits may reside, simultaneously, in the specific training of many of these cognitive functions during musical practice (specific training mechanism), in the improvement of compensatory cognitive processes (specific compensatory mechanism), and in the preservation of general functions with a global influence on others, such as perceptual capacity, processing speed, inhibition and attention (general compensatory mechanism). Therefore, musical practice seems to be a promising tool to reduce the impact of cognitive problems associated to aging.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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