Musical Sophistication and Multilingualism: Effects on Arcuate Fasciculus Characteristics.

ABSTRACT: The processing of auditory stimuli which are structured in time is thought to involve the arcuate fasciculus, the white matter tract which connects the temporal cortex and the inferior frontal gyrus. Research has indicated effects of both musical and language experience on the structural characteristics of the arcuate fasciculus. Here, we investigated in a sample of n = 84 young adults whether continuous conceptualizations of musical and multilingual experience related to structural characteristics of the arcuate fasciculus, measured using diffusion tensor imaging. Probabilistic tractography was used to identify the dorsal and ventral parts of the white matter tract. Linear regressions indicated that different aspects of musical sophistication related to the arcuate fasciculus' volume (emo

SUBMITTER: Cui AX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447524 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature