It is often claimed that music training improves auditory and linguistic skills. Results of
individual studies are mixed, however, and most evidence is correlational, precluding …

As musicians have been shown to have a range of superior auditory skills to non-musicians
(eg, pitch discrimination ability), it has been hypothesized by many researchers that music …

Music perception is plausibly constrained by universal perceptual mechanisms adapted to
natural sounds. Such constraints could arise from our dependence on harmonic frequency …

Prior studies have demonstrated musicianship enhancements of various aspects of auditory
and cognitive processing in older adults, but musical training has rarely been examined as …

Musicians are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged noise exposure, but they may also be
at risk of early sub-clinical hearing damage, such as cochlear synaptopathy. In the current …

Speech-in-noise perception, the ability to hear a relevant voice within a noisy background, is
important for successful communication. Musicians have been reported to perform better …

This review presents a highly selective survey of connections between music and language.
I begin by considering some fundamental differences between music and language and …

Music training is widely assumed to enhance several nonmusical abilities, including speech
perception, executive functions, reading, and emotion recognition. This assumption is based …

The “cocktail party” problem—how a listener perceives speech in noisy environments—is
typically studied using speech (multi-talker babble) or noise maskers. However, realistic …

Musicians can have better abilities to understand speech in adverse conditions such as
background noise than non-musicians. However, the neural mechanisms behind such …