Music and sports performance: A cognitive stimulator of choice
Keywords:
music, sports performance, cognition
Abstract
By its stimulating cognitive virtue, music facilitates motor activity, thus improving sports performance. The origin of its influence on cognition and the human body comes mainly from the fact that it shares regions of the brain in which other mental skills are implemented. The purpose of this article is to relax the amount of evidence in the literature suggesting that music is able to boost athletic performance. We realized an experiment in which the participants had to run to exhaustion with and without listening to exciting music with positive valence. Our results revealed that overall music can improve athletic performance. According to the literature, music seems to be beneficial for sports performance, and deserves to be further explored to make the most of this favorite cognitive stimulator.
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Laukka, P., & Quick, L. (2013). Emotional and motivational uses of music in sports and exercise: A questionnaire study among athletes. Psychology of Music, 41(2), 198-215.
Lee, D. J., Chen, Y., & Schlaug, G. (2003). Corpus callosum: musician and gender effects. Neuroreport, 14(2), 205-209.
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Moussard, A., Rochette, F., & Bigand, E. (2012). La musique comme outil de stimulation cognitive. LAnnee psychologique, 112(3), 499-542.
Nakata, T., & Trehub, S. E. (2004). Infants’ responsiveness to maternal speech and singing. Infant Behavior and Development, 27(4), 455-464.
Oléron, G., & Euric-Silver, S. (1963). Tension affective et effets dynamogeniques dus a la musique. L'Année psychologique, 63(2), 293-308.
Patel, A. D. (2010). Music, biological evolution, and the brain. Emerging disciplines, 91-144.
Salimpoor, V. N., Benovoy, M., Larcher, K., Dagher, A., & Zatorre, R. J. (2011). Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nature neuroscience, 14(2), 257-262.
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Schlaug, G., Norton, A., Overy, K., & Winner, E. (2005). Effects of music training on the child's brain and cognitive development. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060(1), 219-230.
Shenfield, T., Trehub, S. E., & Nakata, T. (2003). Maternal singing modulates infant arousal. Psychology of music, 31(4), 365-375.
Siedliecki, S. L., & Good, M. (2006). Effect of music on power, pain, depression and disability. Journal of advanced nursing, 54(5), 553-562.
Steinbach, P. (2008). Rocking the house. Athletic Business, 8, 66-69.
Tate, A. R., Gennings, C., Hoffman, R. A., Strittmatter, A. P., & Retchin, S. M. (2012). Effects of bone-conducted music on swimming performance. Journal of strength and conditioning research, 26(4), 982.
Terry, P. C., Karageorghis, C. I., Saha, A. M., & D’Auria, S. (2012). Effects of synchronous music on treadmill running among elite triathletes. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 15(1), 52-57.
Thaut, M. H., McIntosh, G. C., Rice, R. R., Miller, R. A., Rathbun, J., & Brault, J. M. (1996). Rhythmic auditory stimulation in gait training for Parkinson's disease patients. Movement disorders: official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 11(2), 193-200.
Trainor, L. J., & Heinmiller, B. M. (1998). The development of evaluative responses to music:: Infants prefer to listen to consonance over dissonance. Infant Behavior and Development, 21(1), 77-88.
Washburn, M. F., & Dickinson, G. L. (2013). The sources and nature of the affective reaction to instrumental music. In The effects of music (pp. 121-130). Routledge.
Witvliet, C. V., & Vrana, S. R. (2007). Play it again Sam: Repeated exposure to emotionally evocative music polarises liking and smiling responses, and influences other affective reports, facial EMG, and heart rate. Cognition and Emotion, 21(1), 3-25.
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