Clinical Research Paper Database
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Musical responses in 3-6 year olds with profound cognitive impairment – in song, with instruments and in movement
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"The topic of my dissertation was to note any musical responses that emerged from a small group of
young children with profound cognitive impairm
ent hereafter known as PCI. By focusing on what
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Older adults benefit from music training early in life: Biological evidence for long-term training-driven plasticity
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Aging results in pervasive declines in nervous system function. In the auditory system, these declines include neural timing delays in response to fast-changing speech elements; this causes older adults to experience difficulty understanding speech, especially in challenging listening environment...
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Musicophilia – Tales of Music and the Brain (Book)
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W
hat an odd thing it is to see an entire species—
billions of ...
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Beat synchronization across the lifespan: Intersection of development and musical experience
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Rhythmic entrainment, or beat synchronization, provides an opportunity to understand how multiple systems operate together to integrate sensory-motor information. Also, synchronization is an essential component of musical performance that may be enhanced through musical training. Investigat...
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Sound to sense, sense to sound: a state of the art in sound and music computing
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The purpose of this book is to give a wide account of state-of-the-art resear
ch
in the sound domain, with a proper combination of human sciences, computa
tional sciences, an...
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Musicians’ enhanced neural differentiation of speech sounds arises early in life: Developmental evidence from ages three to thirty
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The perception and neural representation of acoustically similar speech sounds underlie language development. Music training hones the perception of minute acoustic differences that distinguish sounds; this training may generalize to speech processing given that adult musicians have enhanced neur...
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Continued maturation of the click-evoked auditory brainstem response in preschoolers
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Background: Click-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) are a valuable tool for probing auditory system function and development. Although it has long been thought that the human auditory brainstem is fully mature by age 2 yr, recent evidence indicates a prolonged developmental trajectory.
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Stability and plasticity of auditory brainstem function across the lifespan
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The human auditory brainstem is thought to undergo rapid developmental changes early in life until age ∼2 followed by prolonged stability until aging-related changes emerge. However, earlier work on brainstem development was limited by sparse sampling across the lifespan and/or averaging across c...
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A Little Goes a Long Way: How the Adult Brain Is Shaped by Musical Training in Childhood
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Playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain. But do these changes persist after music training stops? We probed this question by measuring auditory brainstem responses in a cohort of healthy young human adults with varying amounts of past musical training. We show t...
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Auditory brainstem response to complex sounds: A tutorial
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This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of the methodological approach to collecting and analyzing auditory brainstem responses to complex sounds (cABRs). cABRs provide a window into how behaviorally relevant sounds such as speech and music are processed in the brain. Because temporal and...
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Musical experience and the aging auditory system: Implications for cognitive abilities and hearing speech in noise
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Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise, compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for everyone, it becomes increasingly difficult as we age. Although aging is generally accompanied by hearing loss, this perceptual decl...
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Musicians change their tune: How hearing loss alters the neural code
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Individuals with sensorineural hearing loss have difficulty understanding speech, especially in background noise. This deficit remains even when audibility is restored through amplification, suggesting that mechanisms beyond a reduction in peripheral sensitivity contribute to the perceptual diffi...
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Board Members: David Gibson, Randy Masters, Richard Feather Anderson, Jennifer Catalano, Lisa Lippincott, Jackie Miller, Jamie Lu Aldrich