Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 904-912.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.06.18

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The Effect of Musical Training on Statistical Learning

DENG Jue1, YE Ziqing2, ZHOU Jiaxian3   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117;
    2. School of Design and Innovation, Fujian Jiangxia University, Fuzhou 350108;
    3. Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Center for Educational Neuroscience, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
  • Published:2021-11-16

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Abstract: Statistical learning, as one of the prerequisites for rapid acquisition of information regulations in the environment, helps organisms adapt to environmental changes at a lower cost. As an intensive activity with participation of multiple senses, musical training is widely regarded as an effective way to improve cognitive ability. With the confirmation of the core position of statistical learning in music adaptation and the repeated verification of the effect of musical training, in recent years, researches in behavioral performance and brain mechanism have suggested that long-term musical training can enhance the sensitivity of individuals to statistical rules in input information and promote the ability of auditory statistical learning. However, there are still inconsistent results as to whether musical training can promote statistical learning ability of other modes such as vision. The future research should explore the promoting effect of musical training on the cross-modal statistical learning involved auditory, visual and motor. In addition, novice subjects can be selected for musical training intervention, in order to clarify the causal relationship of brain mechanism between musical training and the enhancement of multi-modal statistical learning.

Key words: statistical learning, musical training, promoting effect, auditory, brain mechanism

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