Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …

Children with language-learning impairments (LLI) form a heterogeneous population with
the majority having both spoken and written language deficits as well as sensorimotor …

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human
brain" live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Power of Music a research synthesis of the impact of actively
making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young …

We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine
1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect …

Objective: To investigate the effect of musical training on speech-in-noise (SIN)
performance, a complex task requiring the integration of working memory and stream …

AER 58 surveys the international and national research on the role and effect of arts-rich
programming in schools and in the broader community, and examines the policies and …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

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 …

Purpose: We review a series of experiments aimed at studying pitch processing in music
and speech. These studies were conducted with musician and non musician adults and …