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dc.contributor.authorJentzsch, Ines
dc.contributor.authorMkrtchian, Anahit
dc.contributor.authorKansal, Nayantara
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-21T15:31:01Z
dc.date.available2014-01-21T15:31:01Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-01
dc.identifier69528456
dc.identifier3b9ac2a8-02c8-4c8e-bb0e-1e6b3d64c497
dc.identifier000330914600012
dc.identifier84890793299
dc.identifier.citationJentzsch , I , Mkrtchian , A & Kansal , N 2014 , ' Improved effectiveness of performance monitoring in amateur instrumental musicians ' , Neuropsychologia , vol. 52 , pp. 117-124 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.025en
dc.identifier.issn0028-3932
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5621-1024/work/64360889
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/4409
dc.descriptionThis research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship to Anahit Mkrtchian and a Vacation Scholarship from the Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences to Nayantara Kansal.en
dc.description.abstractHere we report a cross-sectional study investigating the influence of instrumental music practice on the ability to monitor for and respond to processing conflicts and performance errors. Behavioural and electrophysiological indicators of response monitoring in amateur musicians with various skill levels were collected using simple conflict tasks. The results show that instrumental musicians are better able than non-musicians to detect conflicts and errors as indicated by systematic increases in the amplitude of the error-related negativity and the N200 with increasing levels of instrumental practice. Also, high levels of musical training were associated with more efficient and less reactive responses after experience of conflicts and errors as indicated by reduced post-error interference and post-conflict processing adjustments. Together, the present findings suggest that playing a musical instrument might improve the ability to monitor our behavior and adjust our responses effectively when needed. As these processes are amongst the first to be affected by cognitive aging, our evidence could promote musical activity as a realistic intervention to slow or even prevent age-related decline in frontal cortex mediated executive functioning.
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dc.format.extent1299621
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNeuropsychologiaen
dc.subjectAmateur musiciansen
dc.subjectInstrumental practiceen
dc.subjectExecutive functionsen
dc.subjectResponse monitoringen
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectError-related negativityen
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectBDYen
dc.subjectR2Yen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.titleImproved effectiveness of performance monitoring in amateur instrumental musiciansen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorThe Wellcome Trusten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.025
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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