How music alters brain development: A longitudinal twin study on sensorimotor synchronization and brain plasticity

With this project, we aim to unravel whether sensorimotor synchronization performance, a key component of musical capability, is related to individual differences in structural brain developmental patterns of motor and affective networks. This may be indicative of sensitive windows in brain development, where musical training affects brain developmental trajectories to a larger extend. Last, we test to what extent the association between sensorimotor synchronization and brain development is environmentally or genetically driven, using a longitudinal twin sample aged between 7 and 13-year old.

本项研究旨在探究感知运动同步能力，音乐能力的关键组成部分，是否与个体在运动和情感网络的结构性脑部发育模式上的差异存在关联。此发现或许揭示了大脑发育中的敏感期，在此期间，音乐训练对大脑发育轨迹的影响尤为显著。最后，本研究通过纵向双生子样本，年龄介于7至13岁之间，旨在测试感知运动同步与大脑发育之间的关联是受环境因素还是遗传因素驱动。