Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics: acquisition and knowledge of language, language
pathologies
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other
physical and mental disabilities)
Studies have shown that music training can enhance linguistic processes (e.g., categorical
perception, phonological awareness) and cognitive functions involved in reading (Flaugnacco
et al, 2015; Habib et al., 2016). This project aims to develop a music training and
measure its effects. In the pre-training phase, we will recruit 10-year-old children
with reading difficulties from schools in Hungary and behavioral and ERP experiments
will be conducted. In the training phase, we will apply a music training we are currently
developing. During the post-training phase, we will assess the effectiveness of our
training conducting the experiments of the pre-training phase. We are expecting that
our training, which is based on the association of speech and music elements, will
show the importance of music transferring effects to cognitive functions of language
such as reading. Results will be discussed in the light of the previous music training
studies and acoustical and phonological processing in dyslexia.
