Short-Term Second Language and Music Training Induces Lasting Functional Brain Changes in Early Childhood

• Autores: Sylvain Moreno, Yunjo Lee, Monika Janus, Ellen Bialystok
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 86, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 394-406
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Immediate and lasting effects of music or second-language training were examined in early childhood using event-related potentials. Event-related potentials were recorded for French vowels and musical notes in a passive oddball paradigm in thirty-six 4- to 6-year-old children who received either French or music training. Following training, both groups showed enhanced late discriminative negativity (LDN) in their trained condition (music group–musical notes; French group–French vowels) and reduced LDN in the untrained condition. These changes reflect improved processing of relevant (trained) sounds, and an increased capacity to suppress irrelevant (untrained) sounds. After 1 year, training-induced brain changes persisted and new hemispheric changes appeared. Such results provide evidence for the lasting benefit of early intervention in young children.