Examining neural plasticity and cognitive benefit through the unique lens of musical training

S Moreno, GM Bidelman - Hearing research, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Speech-in-noise perception in musicians: A review

EBJ Coffey, NB Mogilever, RJ Zatorre - Hearing research, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] The power of music

S Hallam - 2015 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
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 …

Music training improves speech-in-noise perception: Longitudinal evidence from a community-based music program

J Slater, E Skoe, DL Strait, S O'Connell… - Behavioural brain …, 2015 - Elsevier
Music training may strengthen auditory skills that help children not only in musical
performance but in everyday communication. Comparisons of musicians and non-musicians …

Musical training during early childhood enhances the neural encoding of speech in noise

DL Strait, A Parbery-Clark, E Hittner, N Kraus - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
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' …

Revisiting the association between music lessons and intelligence: Training effects or music aptitude?

S Swaminathan, EG Schellenberg, S Khalil - Intelligence, 2017 - Elsevier
We examined whether the link between intelligence and musical expertise is better
explained by formal music lessons or music aptitude. Musically trained and untrained adults …

Piano training enhances the neural processing of pitch and improves speech perception in Mandarin-speaking children

Y Nan, L Liu, E Geiser, H Shu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Musical training confers advantages in speech-sound processing, which could play an
important role in early childhood education. To understand the mechanisms of this effect, we …

Biological impact of auditory expertise across the life span: musicians as a model of auditory learning

DL Strait, N Kraus - Hearing research, 2014 - Elsevier
Experience-dependent characteristics of auditory function, especially with regard to speech-
evoked auditory neurophysiology, have garnered increasing attention in recent years. This …

Learning, neural plasticity and sensitive periods: implications for language acquisition, music training and transfer across the lifespan

EJ White, SA Hutka, LJ Williams… - Frontiers in systems …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Sensitive periods in human development have often been proposed to explain age-related
differences in the attainment of a number of skills, such as a second language (L2) and …

Perception of patterns of musical beat distribution in phonological developmental dyslexia: Significant longitudinal relations with word reading and reading …

U Goswami, M Huss, N Mead, T Fosker, JP Verney - Cortex, 2013 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: In a recent study, we reported that the accurate perception of beat
structure in music ('perception of musical meter') accounted for over 40% of the variance in …