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Musical training during early childhood enhances the neural encoding of speech in noise
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For children, learning often occurs in the presence of background noise. As such, there is growing desire to improve a child's access to a target signal in noise. Given adult musicians' perceptual and neural speech-in-noise enhancements, we asked whether similar effects are present in musically-t...
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Specialization among the specialized: Auditory brainstem function is tuned in to timbre
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Evidence has mounted documenting widespread musician enhancements in an evolutionarily ancient subcortical structure, the auditory brainstem, highlighting the brainstem as a structure involved in learning-related brain plasticity (Banai and Kraus, 2007; Krishnan et al., 2009). Musicians not only ...
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Musicians have fine-tuned neural distinction of speech syllables
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One of the benefits musicians derive from their training is an increased ability to detect small differences between sounds. Here, we asked whether musicians' experience discriminating sounds on the basis of small acoustic differences confers advantages in the subcortical differentiation of...
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Musical experience strengthens the neural representation of sounds important for communication in middle-aged adults
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Older adults frequently complain that while they can hear a person talking, they cannot understand what is being said; this difficulty is exacerbated by background noise. Peripheral hearing loss cannot fully account for this age-related decline in speech-in-noise ability, as declines in central...
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Biological impact of music and software-based auditory training
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Auditory-based communication skills are developed at a young age and are maintained throughout our lives. However, some individuals -- both young and old -- encounter difficulties in achieving or maintaining communication proficiency. Biological signals arising from hearing sounds relate to real-...
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High school music classes enhance the neural processing of speech
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Should music be a priority in public education? One argument for teaching music in school is that private music instruction relates to enhanced language abilities and neural function. However, the directionality of this relationship is unclear and it is unknown whether school-based music training...
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The ability to tap to a beat relates to cognitive, linguistic, and perceptual skills
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Reading-impaired children have difficulty tapping to a beat. Here we tested whether this relationship between reading ability and synchronized tapping holds in typically-developing adolescents. We also hypothesized that tapping relates to two other abilities. First, since auditory-m...
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Biological impact of preschool music classes on processing speech in noise
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Musicians have increased resilience to the effects of noise on speech perception and its neural underpinnings. We do not know, however, how early in life these enhancements arise. We compared auditory brainstem responses to speech in noise in 32 preschool children, half of whom were engaged in mu...
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Musical training heightens auditory brainstem function during sensitive periods in development
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Experience has a profound influence on how sound is processed in the brain. Yet little is known about how enriched experiences interact with developmental processes to shape neural processing of sound. We examine this question as part of a large cross-sectional study of auditory brainstem develop...
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Musical training enhances neural processing of binaural sounds
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While hearing in noise is a complex task, even in high levels of noise humans demonstrate remarkable hearing ability. Binaural hearing, which involves the integration and analysis of incoming sounds from both ears, is an important mechanism that promotes hearing in complex listening environments....
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Music: A window into the hearing brain. Hearing Research Special Issue
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Entire issue of Hearing Research journal dedicated to Music (February 2014; Guest editors Kraus, Strait and Zatorre).
For a brief overview of articles, see: Editors’ introduction to Hearing Research special issue: Music, a window into the hearing brain | Sound Healing Research Foundation
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Editors’ introduction to hearing research special issue: Music, a window into the hearing brain
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There has been a surge of music-themed research in the field of auditory neuroscience in the past decade. A wealth of data have confirmed that musically trained individuals have structural, functional, and developmental differences in their brains relative to nonmusicians. Together, this work als...
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Board Members: David Gibson, Randy Masters, Jennifer Catalano, Lisa Lippincott, Jackie Miller, Anders Christensen