The effect of musical training on affective memory in 4/5 year old children.

BENITEZ MARIA ANGÉLICA; DIAZ ABRAHAN VERÓNICA; SARLI, LETICIA; BOSSIO, MAXIMILIANO ALEJO; FAVIO SHIFRES; JUSTEL NADIA

Canadá, Argentina, Australia, Austria

Congreso; 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Icmpc) 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition & 10th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.; 2018

European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.

Musical training at early age has multiple beneficial effects on cognitive development. It stimulates synaptic plasticity,observed through anatomical, functional and behavioural differences between musicians and non-musicians (Justel & DiazAbrahan, 2012). Musical training can be either receptive or active- i.e. where the child perceives music and its elements orwhen he produces music besides perceiving it. Although there is considerable research involving musical training,differences between both kinds of trainings has not been further investigated.One of the cognitive functions that are influenced by the musical training is memory. Previous research shows that memoryfor emotional items is better than for neutral ones and also that music can modulate memory for emotional items betterthan for neutral ones (Cordon et al., 2013). There are investigations that evaluate these issues in adults. However, theinfluence of emotional vs neutral items in pre-schoolers? memory remains poorly understood