So far, 10 elderlies and 15 young adults have been trained with MusicPlast and our preliminary results are very encouraging!

The comparison of electroencephalographic measurements before and after the intervention in the group of elderlies showed a statistically significant increase in the activation of the right medial temporal gyrus (main functionality: multisensory integration), and the left inferior frontal gyrus (main functionality: sequence processing and language), as seen in the figure above.

Those brain regions are amongst the first ones which are affected by aging. Nonetheless, the cognitive functions that MusicPlast uses, namely multisensory integration and music perception, while correlated with the functionality of these regions, retain the ability to generate neuroplastic changes via training, even in older ages.

The comparison of electroencephalographic measurements before and after the intervention in the group of young adults showed a statistically significant increase in the activation of the right superior and medial temporal gyrus (main functionality: auditory processing and multisensory integration), the right inferior frontal gyrus (main functionality: sequence processing) and a posterior parietal region (main functionality: processing of location of objects on space), as seen in the figure above.

It must be noted that due to the medium size of the sample gathered so far, these results are not conclusive. Nonetheless, this results show that MusicPlast has such a strong neuroplastic effect size that a statistical significance can be reached with just 10-15 subjects per group.

If you wish to take part in the project, get in touch with the scientific group at musicplast@gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/musicplast/