Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children

We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old children. Music skills were found to correlate significantly with both phonological awareness and reading development. Regression analyses indicated that...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of experimental child psychology 2002-10, Vol.83 (2), p.111-130
Hauptverfasser: Anvari, Sima H, Trainor, Laurel J, Woodside, Jennifer, Levy, Betty Ann
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old children. Music skills were found to correlate significantly with both phonological awareness and reading development. Regression analyses indicated that music perception skills contributed unique variance in predicting reading ability, even when variance due to phonological awareness and other cognitive abilities (math, digit span, and vocabulary) had been accounted for. Thus, music perception appears to tap auditory mechanisms related to reading that only partially overlap with those related to phonological awareness, suggesting that both linguistic and nonlinguistic general auditory mechanisms are involved in reading.
ISSN:0022-0965
1096-0457
DOI:10.1016/S0022-0965(02)00124-8