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Florencia Assaneo @fassaneo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Why is the literature relating music and cognition so contradictory? Some studies report strong cognitive advantages associated with musical training, while others find weak or null effects. How can both be true?

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Florencia Assaneo @fassaneo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This framework can naturally generate both positive and null findings across studies — without assuming that the literature is inconsistent or flawed. A few years later, we provided behavioral evidence supporting this proposal. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Rhythmic skills mediate the link between music training and cognition via attention and phonological processing - Communications Psychology

Rhythmic ability enhances attention and phonological processing only after surpassing a specific threshold; beyond this point, additional improvements confer no further benefit. This thresholded relat...

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Florencia Assaneo @fassaneo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Together, these studies suggest that the link between music and cognition may not be linear or universal, but critically dependent on individual rhythmic capacities. Really happy to have worked on these ideas over the years with @pripolles.bsky.social @fherlizcano.bsky.social

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