… sleepers”) showed enhanced speech categorization in the form of … neural level, we found
stronger categorical neural encoding of speech in people with better music perceptual skills. …

… K Mankel, GM Bidelman, Inherent auditory skills rather than formal music training shape
the neural encoding of speech. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115, 13129–13134 (2018). …

… to have a range of superior auditory skills to non-musicians (… that music training can have
a beneficial effect on speech … separate the effects of training from inherent characteristics. In …

… if musicians have superior auditory skills overall, they would … , which uses a speech-shaped
noise masker and thus more EM … We find that duration of musical training predicted not only …

… speakers or speech-shaped noise under more realistic … backgrounds across a wide
range of listening conditions. … neural encoding of speech signals in non-musicians with high …

… Even so, we rapidly form distinct streams or objects through … sounds beyond fine-grained
pitch processing and speech. … It should be noted that because a change during a trial inherently …

… in question form with a rising pitch and in a statement form with a … between music training
and perceptual skills, beyond inherent … of neural encoding of auditory objects while listening to …

… neural encoding of speech, as evidenced by stronger and … of music training and its association
with listening abilities, … evidence that music training improves listening skills comes from a …

… controlled synthetic music or shaped noise, … auditory skills. Our data are consistent with
emerging notions that listeners’ inherent, rather than acquired, musicality affect their speech-in-…

… on the neural benefits of musical training by showing that inherent auditory skills might …
shape the neural encoding of speech. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115, 13129–13134 (2018). …