Enriched childhood experiences moderate age-related motor and cognitive decline

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dc.contributor.authorMetzler, Megan J.
dc.contributor.authorSaucier, Deborah M.
dc.contributor.authorMetz, Gerlinde A. S.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-23T22:53:05Z
dc.date.available2016-11-23T22:53:05Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionSherpa Romeo green journal: open accessen_US
dc.description.abstractAging is associated with deterioration of skilled manual movement. Specifically, aging corresponds with increased reaction time, greater movement duration, segmentation of movement, increased movement variability, and reduced ability to adapt to external forces and inhibit previously learned sequences. Moreover,it is thought that decreased lateralization of neural function in older adults may point to increase neural recruitment as a compensatory response to deterioration of key frontal and intra-hemispheric networks, particularly of callosal structures. However, factors that mediate age-related motor decline are not well understood. Here we show that music training in childhood is associated with reduced age-related decline of bimanual and unimanual motor skills in a MIDI keyboard motor learning task. Compared to older adults without music training, older adults with more than a year of music training demonstrated proficient bimanual and unimanual movement, evidenced by enhanced speed and decreased movement errors. Further, this group demonstrated significantly better implicit learning in the weather prediction task, a non-motor task. The performance of older adults with music training in those tasks was comparable to young adults. Older adults, however, displayed greater verbal ability compared to young adults irrespective of a past history of music training. Our results indicate that music training early in life may reduce age-associated decline of neural motor and cognitive networks.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMetzler, M. J., Saucier, D. M., & Metz, G. A. (2013). Enriched childhood experiences moderate age-related motor and cognitive decline. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(1). doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00001en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4730
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundationen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Neuroscienceen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.subjectBimanual motor skillen_US
dc.subjectMotor coordinationen_US
dc.subjectWeather prediction tasken_US
dc.subjectKeyboarden_US
dc.subjectPianoen_US
dc.subjectMusic trainingen_US
dc.subjectImplicit learningen_US
dc.subjectVerbal abilityen_US
dc.subjectMusic -- Instruction and studyen_US
dc.subjectMusic and childrenen_US
dc.subjectMotor abilityen_US
dc.titleEnriched childhood experiences moderate age-related motor and cognitive declineen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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