Publications

Published and in press (34)

2015 & In press

  1. Dhami, P., DeSouza, J., Moreno, S., (In press) New Framework for Rehab - Fusion Cognitive and Physical Rehab: the Hope for Dancing. Frontiers in Cognitive Science.
  2. Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Janus, M., & Bialystok, E. (2015) Short-term second language and music training induces lasting functional brain changes in early childhood. Child Development. 86 (2), 394-406.
  3. Kovačević, N., Moreno, S., Ritter, P., McIntosh, A., R. (2015) My Virtual Dream: Collective Neurofeedback Inside Immersive Art Environment. Plos One.
  4. Hutka, S., Bidelman, G., M., Moreno, S. (2015) Pitch expertise is not created equal: Cross-domain effects of musicianship and tone language experience on neural and behavioural discrimination of speech and music. Neuropsychologia. 71: 52-63.
  5. Moreno, S. & Farzan, F. (2015). Music Training and Inhibitory Control: a Multidimensional Model. Annals of New York Academy of Science. 1337 (1), 147-152.
  6. Hutchins, S., Hutka, S., Moreno, S., (2015) Symbolic and Motor Contributions to Vocal Imitation in Absolute Pitch. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 32 (3), 254-265.
  7. Feng, J., Craik, F.I.M., Levine, B., Moreno, S., Naglie, G., Choi, H.S., Medina, A. (2015) Drive Aware Task: Measuring Target Detection in a Visual Clutter in the Driving Context. Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting.

2014

  1. Sullivan, M.D., Janus, M.K., Moreno, S., Astheimer, L., & Bialystok, E. (2014) Early stage second-language learning improves executive control. Brain and Language. 139, 84-98.
  2. Bidelman, G. M., Weiss, M. W., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2014).  Coordinated plasticity in brainstem and auditory cortex contributes to enhanced categorical speech perception in musicians. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12627
  3. Kielar, A., Meltzer, J.A., Moreno, S., Alain, C., & Bialystok, E. (2014). Oscillatory responses to semantic and syntactic violations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00670
  4. Bidelman, G. M., Villafuerte, J. W., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2014).  Age-related changes in the subcortical-cortical encoding and categorical perception of speech.  Neurobiology of Aging. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.05.006
  5. Moreno, S., Wodniecka, Z., Tays, W., Alain, C., & Bialystok, E. (2014). Inhibitory control in bilinguals and musicians: Event Related Potential (ERP) evidence for experience-specific effects. PLOS ONE 9(4): e94169. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094169
  6. Bialystok, E., Peets, K., & Moreno, S. (2014). Producing bilinguals through immersion education: Development of metalinguistic awareness. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35(1): 177-191. doi  10.1017/S0142716412000288
  7. Astheimer, L., Janus, M., Moreno, S. & Bialystok, E. (2014). Electrophysiological measures of attention during speech perception predict metalinguistic skills in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 7:1-12.

2013

  1. Hutka, S.A., Bidelman, G.M., & Moreno, S. (2013). Brain signal variability as a window into the bidirectionality between music and language processing: Moving from a linear to a nonlinear model. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:984. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00984
  2. Hutchins, S. & Moreno, S. (2013). The Linked Dual Representation model of vocal perception and performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:825. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00825
  3. White, E.J., Hutka, S.A., Williams, L.J., & Moreno, S. (2013). Learning, neural plasticity and sensitive periods: Implications for language acquisition, music training, and transfer across the lifespan. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7(90):1-18. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00090
  4. Moreno, S. & Bidelman, G.M. (2013). Examining neural plasticity and cognitive benefit through the unique lens of musical training. Hearing Research, 308:84-97. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.09.012
  5. Bidelman, G. M., Hutka, S., & Moreno, S. (2013). Tone language speakers and musicians share enhanced perceptual and cognitive abilities for musical pitch: Evidence for bidirectionality between the domains of language and music. PLOS ONE 8(4): e60676. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060676
  6. Bidelman, G. M., Moreno, S., & Alain, C. (2013). Tracing the emergence of categorical speech perception in the human auditory system. NeuroImage, 79: 201-212.
  7. Luo, L., Craik, F., Moreno, S., & Bialystok, E. (2013). Bilingualism interacts with domain in a working memory task: Evidence from aging. Psychology and Aging 28(1):28-34. doi: 10.1037/a0030875

2012

  1. Hermanto, N., Moreno, S., & Bialystok, E. (2012). Linguistic and metalinguistic outcomes of intense immersion education: How bilingual? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 15(2): 131-45.

2011

  1. Moreno, S., Bialystok, E., Barac, R., Schellenberg, G., Cepeda, N., & Chau, T. (2011). Short-term music training enhances verbal intelligence and executive function. Psychological Science, 22: 1425-33.
  2. Moreno, S., Friesen, D., & Bialystok, E. (2011). Effect of music training on promoting preliteracy skills: Preliminary causal evidence. Music Perception, 29(2): 165-72.

2010

  1. Moreno, S., Bialystok, E., Wodniecka, Z., & Alain, C. (2010). Conflict resolution in sentence processing by bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23(6):564-79.
  2. Schellenberg, G. & Moreno, S. (2010). Music lessons, pitch processing, and g. Psychology of Music, 38(2):209-221.

2009

  1. Moreno, S. (2009). Can music influence language and cognition? Contemporary Music Review, 28: 3, 329-345.
  2. Moreno, S., Marques, C., Santos, A., Santos, M., Castro, S.L., & Besson, M. (2009). Musical training improves verbal memory, reading abilities and pitch perception: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence in 8 year-old non-musicians children. Cerebral Cortex, 19(3):712-23.

2008

  1. Schön, D., Boyer, M., Moreno, S., Besson, M., Peretz, I. & Kolinsky, R. (2008). Songs as an aid for language acquisition. Cognition, 106(2):975-83.

2007

  1. Besson, M., Schön, D., Moreno, S., Santos, A., Magne, C. (2007). Influence of musical expertise and musical training on pitch processing in music and language. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 25(3-4):399-410.
  2. Marques, C., Moreno, S., Castro, S. L. & Besson, M. (2007). Musicians detect pitch violation in a foreign language better than nonmusicians: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(9):1453-63.
  3. Santos A., Joly-Pottuz B., Moreno, S., Habib M. & Besson M. (2007). Behavioural and Event-Related Potentials evidence for pitch discrimination deficits in dyslexic children: Improvement after intensive phonic intervention. Neuropsychologia, 45(5): 1080-90.

2006

  1. Moreno, S. & Besson, M. (2006). Musical training and language-related brain electrical activity in children. Psychophysiology, 43(3), 287-91.
  2. Moreno, S. & Besson, M. (2006). Influence of musical training on pitch processing: Event-Related brain Potential studies of adults and children. Annals of New York Academy of Science, 1060: 93–97.

 

Submitted and in preparation (8)

  1. Moreno, S., Lee, Y., Moussard, A., Alain, C., Bidelman, G., M., Arts training in older adults boost inhibitory control and working memory performance. [Submitted]
  2. Barac, R., Moreno, S., & Bialystok, E. Bilingualism children and EF. (Developmental Science). [Under review]
  3. Carpentier, S.M., Kovacevic, N., Bialystok, E., McIntosh, A.R., & Moreno, S. Short-term musical training enhances brain signal complexity during music and language tasks. (Nature Neuroscience). [Submitted]
  4. Moreno, S., Smith, C.R., John, M.S., & Moreno, L. Innovation in neuroscience: A new way of approaching training-based neuroscience. (Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition). [Under review]
  5. Moussard, A., Tays, W., Alain, C., & Moreno, S. The influence of life-long music training on executive control in older adults: An event-related potential study. (Cerebral Cortex). [Under review]
  6. Hutka, S., Bidelman, G., M., & Moreno, S. A nonlinear approach to understanding the music-language association: Different neural networks support sound discrimination of music and speech in musicians and tone-language speakers. [Submitted]
  7. Hutchins, S., Hutka, S., Moreno, S., The electrophysiological correlates of vocal imitationand discrimination abilities. [In preparation]
  8. Vanroom P. and Moreno, S., Music training and executive functions: a transfer of skills hypothesis. [In preparation/Invited paper]

 

Published Book Chapters

Moreno, S. & Besson, M. (2007). Langage et musique: études comportementale et électrophysiologique du transfert d’apprentissage. In M. Kail, M. Fayol & M. Hickmann (Eds.), Apprentissage des langues premières et secondes. (pp. 101-115). Paris, France: CNRS Press.