The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that listeners with frequent exposure to
loud music exhibit deficits in suprathreshold auditory performance consistent with cochlear …

The ability to understand speech in the presence of competing sound sources is an
important neuroscience question in terms of how the nervous system solves this …

Fundamental changes in brain structure and function during adolescence are well-
characterized, but the extent to which experience modulates adolescent neurodevelopment …

Recent animal research has shown that exposure to single episodes of intense noise
causes cochlear synaptopathy without affecting hearing thresholds. It has been suggested …

The auditory system is stunning in its capacity for change: a single neuron can modulate its
tuning in minutes. Here we articulate a conceptual framework to understand the biology of …

The idea that musical training improves speech perception in challenging listening
environments is appealing and of clinical importance, yet the mechanisms of any such …

Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

Evidence for transfer of musical training to better perception of speech in noise has been
mixed. Unlike speech-in-noise, speech-on-speech perception utilizes many of the skills that …

The goal of this study was to investigate how cognitive factors influence performance in a
multi-talker,“cocktail-party” like environment in musicians and non-musicians. This was …

Solving the “cocktail party problem” depends on segregating, selecting, and comprehending
the message of one specific talker among competing talkers. This chapter reviews the …