Music and executive function in adolescents

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dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Frank
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorGonzalez, Claudia L. R.
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-10T21:20:29Z
dc.date.available2019-09-10T21:20:29Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractMusic is an incredibly complex and beautiful activity, which involves nearly every cognitive function. There is evidence to suggest that musical training in children and adult musicians is associated with an improvement in several Executive Functions (EF). This thesis examined whether those associations persisted during adolescence, and whether there is a relationship between time spent in musical training and adolescents EF. Adolescents ages 14-18 completed a subjective survey of EF as well as a battery of objective EF tasks. They also completed questionnaire detailing their musical experience. Adolescent musicians were found to have improved inhibition relative to non-musicians and inhibition was found to be correlated with musical practice time. No other elements of EF were found to be associated with musical training. These findings suggest that the impact of musical training on executive functions is related to how similar the neuropsychological assessment is to the musical training in question.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5556
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectNeurosciences [0317]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectPsychology [0621]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectMusic [0413]en_US
dc.proquestyesNoen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Neuroscienceen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Neuroscienceen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectAttentionen_US
dc.subjectCognitive learningen_US
dc.subjectExecutive functions (Neuropsychology)en_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectProblem solvingen_US
dc.subjectTeenagersen_US
dc.titleMusic and executive function in adolescentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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