Neurocognitive and emotional benefits of choir singing and their mediating factors across adulthood

IF 3.4 3区 医学 Q2 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY
Nella Moisseinen, Alli Haavisto, Silja Heimala, Noelia Martínez-Molina, Boris Kleber, Aleksi J. Sihvonen, Teppo Särkämö
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Abstract

Background

Our understanding on how cognitive and socioemotional well-being factors interact throughout adulthood has increased remarkably over the past decades, encouraging the use of cognitively engaging leisure activities, such as music, to promote healthy ageing. Choir singing has attracted particular interest in this regard with its established benefits on socioemotional well-being. Outside the clinical context, however, the cognitive and well-being effects induced by musical activities are often studied separately, leaving it unclear to what extent they interact in contributing to healthy ageing.

Aims & methods

Using a balanced sample (N = 95) of healthy adults (aged 21–88 years) with neuropsychological test data (verbal fluency, processing speed, executive function, working memory) and questionnaire data (depression and quality of life, QOL), the present study mapped the benefits of choir singing (duration and frequency) on cognitive functions and well-being and their mediating mechanisms across adulthood.

Results

Choir singing frequency was associated with reduced depressive symptoms, which also mediated effects with QOL. Lifetime duration of choir singing was associated with enhanced episodic memory and verbal fluency, with a mediating effect of semantic verbal fluency on the relationship between choir singing and episodic memory.

Discussion & conclusions

These findings convey the co-occurrence of singing-associated benefits and characterise shared mechanisms by which these effects interact in promoting healthy ageing.

唱诗班对成年期神经认知和情绪的益处及其中介因素
在过去的几十年里,我们对认知和社会情感健康因素如何在整个成年期相互作用的理解显著增加,鼓励使用认知参与休闲活动,如音乐,以促进健康老龄化。唱诗班唱歌在这方面吸引了特别的兴趣,因为它对社会情感健康有既定的好处。然而,在临床环境之外,音乐活动引起的认知和健康影响通常是分开研究的,因此不清楚它们在多大程度上相互作用,有助于健康老龄化。目的和方法采用平衡样本(N = 95),包括21-88岁的健康成年人的神经心理测试数据(语言流畅性、处理速度、执行功能、工作记忆)和问卷调查数据(抑郁和生活质量,QOL),本研究绘制了唱诗班唱歌对成年期认知功能和幸福感的益处(持续时间和频率)及其中介机制。结果唱歌频率与抑郁症状减轻相关,抑郁症状减轻对生活质量也有调节作用。终生合唱持续时间与情景记忆和言语流畅性增强相关,语义性言语流畅性在合唱与情景记忆的关系中起中介作用。讨论和结论:这些发现揭示了与唱歌相关的益处的共存,并描述了这些效应在促进健康老龄化方面相互作用的共同机制。
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7.90
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5.00%
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283
审稿时长
1 months
期刊介绍: Aging clinical and experimental research offers a multidisciplinary forum on the progressing field of gerontology and geriatrics. The areas covered by the journal include: biogerontology, neurosciences, epidemiology, clinical gerontology and geriatric assessment, social, economical and behavioral gerontology. “Aging clinical and experimental research” appears bimonthly and publishes review articles, original papers and case reports.
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