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Vandervert L. How music training enhances working memory: a cerebrocerebellar blending mechanism that can lead equally to scientific discovery and therapeutic efficacy in neurological disorders. Cerebellum Ataxias. 2015;2:11doi: 10.1186/s40673-015-0030-2.
Vandervert, L. (2015). How music training enhances working memory: a cerebrocerebellar blending mechanism that can lead equally to scientific discovery and therapeutic efficacy in neurological disorders. Cerebellum & ataxias, 211. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40673-015-0030-2
Vandervert, Larry. "How music training enhances working memory: a cerebrocerebellar blending mechanism that can lead equally to scientific discovery and therapeutic efficacy in neurological disorders." Cerebellum & ataxias vol. 2 (2015): 11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40673-015-0030-2
Vandervert L. How music training enhances working memory: a cerebrocerebellar blending mechanism that can lead equally to scientific discovery and therapeutic efficacy in neurological disorders. Cerebellum Ataxias. 2015 Sep 04;2:11. doi: 10.1186/s40673-015-0030-2. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26339499; PMCID: PMC4559002.
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Cerebellum Ataxias. 2015 Sep 04;2:11. doi: 10.1186/s40673-015-0030-2. eCollection 2015.

How music training enhances working memory: a cerebrocerebellar blending mechanism that can lead equally to scientific discovery and therapeutic efficacy in neurological disorders.

Cerebellum & ataxias

Larry Vandervert

Affiliations

  1. American Nonlinear Systems, Spokane, WA 990205 USA.

PMID: 26339499 PMCID: PMC4559002 DOI: 10.1186/s40673-015-0030-2

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Following in the vein of studies that concluded that music training resulted in plastic changes in Einstein's cerebral cortex, controlled research has shown that music training (1) enhances central executive attentional processes in working memory, and (2) has also been shown to be of significant therapeutic value in neurological disorders. Within this framework of music training-induced enhancement of central executive attentional processes, the purpose of this article is to argue that: (1) The foundational basis of the central executive begins in infancy as attentional control during the establishment of working memory, (2) In accordance with Akshoomoff, Courchesne and Townsend's and Leggio and Molinari's cerebellar sequence detection and prediction models, the rigors of volitional control demands of music training can enhance voluntary manipulation of information in thought and movement, (3) The music training-enhanced blending of cerebellar internal models in working memory as can be experienced as intuition in scientific discovery (as Einstein often indicated) or, equally, as moments of therapeutic advancement toward goals in the development of voluntary control in neurological disorders, and (4) The blending of internal models as in (3) thus provides a mechanism by which music training enhances central executive processes in working memory that can lead to scientific discovery and improved therapeutic outcomes in neurological disorders.

RESULTS: Within the framework of Leggio and Molinari's cerebellar sequence detection model, it is determined that intuitive steps forward that occur in both scientific discovery and during therapy in those with neurological disorders operate according to the same mechanism of adaptive error-driven blending of cerebellar internal models.

CONCLUSION: It is concluded that the entire framework of the central executive structure of working memory is a product of the cerebrocerebellar system which can, through the learning of internal models, incorporate the multi-dimensional rigor and volitional-control demands of music training and, thereby, enhance voluntary control. It is further concluded that this cerebrocerebellar view of the music training-induced enhancement of central executive control in working memory provides a needed mechanism to explain both the highest level of scientific discovery and the efficacy of music training in the remediation of neurological impairments.

Keywords: Albert Einstein; Central executive; Cerebellum; Internal models; Music therapy; Music training-induced voluntary control; Scientific intuition; Sequence detection hypothesis; Thought dysmetria; Working memory

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