Music Training for Development of Auditory Skills

The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have attracted many researchers, which is evident from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general
public. Neuroscience research has shown that music training leads to changes throughout the cortical and sub-cortical pathways of auditory system that prime musicians for listening challenges beyond music processing as seen in the processing of speech stimuli. In the present study, we have focused on the effects of music training for development of auditory skills especially in children and their education system in school.

In order to review the latest literature about the effects of music training on the development of auditory processing and brain plasticity since 2000, selected PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, ProQuest databases were searched.

At one glance, we may assume that speech and music processing are so different because they are processed in separate brain areas (speech in the left hemisphere and music in the right  hemisphere). But the truth is something else. We use the same cognitional and comprehension features of cortical and subcortical pathways to process speech and music. Music training induces changes in the auditory system, which is not specific to music processing only, it also improved speech processing. Music training can be used for those children suffering from disease affecting speech processing