We are pleased to present to you this week the second in a series of infographics!

These visuals, created by Alexandre Sicard, a PhD student in our lab, aim to share the discoveries from our major research project on the effects of Instrumental or Vocal Practice on Cognition, Language, and Brain Organization (the PICCOLO project).

In this second infographic, we highlight the results of the second study published as part of this project. This study, recently accepted for publication in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, an interdisciplinary American journal, was led by Pascale Tremblay with a fantastic team composed of Maryline Joyal, Alexandre Sicard, and our collaborators, Professors Virginia Penhune from the Department of Psychology at Concordia University and Philip Jackson from the School of Psychology at Université Laval. The study compares the executive functions of a group of singers 🎤 with those of instrumentalists 🎸🎻 and an active control group.

Find out how singers and instrument players differ from non-musicians by exploring our infographic.

Click on the infographic to view it in a larger format. You can also download it as a PDF by clicking here.

To learn more about this study, read the scientific article itself by clicking here: https://speechneurolab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Joyal_etal_2024_NYAS.pdf

Happy reading!