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- Figure 1.
Two years of music training improves the neurophysiological distinction of consonants. Right, Cross-phaseogram difference plots for children in Group 2. After 2 years of training (bottom) these children show a stronger neural distinction of speech, illustrated by the large red swatch. Children who first undergo a control year (left) do not show any year-to-year changes in neurophysiological distinction. Black boxes represent the region of interest for statistical analysis (see Materials and Methods).
- Figure 2.
A correlation is observed between hours of music training over the course of the study and change in neurophysiological distinction, with children undergoing more training having a larger improvement in this distinction when controlling for their age. Children from Group 1 (circles) with zero hours of instrumental training did not move beyond group music skills classes due to programmatic constraints and student readiness (see Materials and Methods). The zero line across the y-axis represents no change in neural distinction after training.
