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Norton, Andrea; Winner, Ellen; Cronin, Karl; Overy, Katie; Lee, Dennis J.; Schlaug, Gottfried – Brain and Cognition, 2005
Adult musician's brains show structural enlargements, but it is not known whether these are inborn or a consequence of long-term training. In addition, music training in childhood has been shown to have positive effects on visual-spatial and verbal outcomes. However, it is not known whether pre-existing advantages in these skills are found in…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Musicians, Musical Instruments, Pattern Recognition
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Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Hunt, Dennis – 1976
Individual differences in perceptual information processing were tested using 327 ten year old children, with verbal tasks representing successive information processing and spatial tasks representing simultaneous information processing. Three sets of tasks, (1) visual/reconstruction (V/R), (2) visual/verbal (V/VL), and (3) verbal/reconstruction…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics