Morphological differences in the auditory brain of musicians compared to nonmusicians are
often associated with life‐long musical activity. Cross‐sectional studies, however, do not …

Music is a species-specific communication system that develops under a complex set of
genetic constraints and environmental input. As with language, some features of musical …

Evidence from brain-damaged patients suggests that regions in the temporal lobes, distinct
from those engaged in lower-level auditory analysis, process the pitch and rhythmic …

Selective attention decreases trial-to-trial variability in cortical auditory-evoked activity. This
effect increases over the course of maturation, potentially reflecting the gradual development …

Despite considerable research on experience‐dependent neuroplasticity in professional
musicians, detailed understanding of an involvement of the insula is only now beginning to …

Performing musicians invest thousands of hours becoming experts in a range of perceptual,
attentional, and cognitive skills. The duration and intensity of musicians' training–far greater …

Across species, there is considerable evidence of preferential processing for biologically
significant signals such as conspecific vocalizations and the calls of individual conspecifics …

Recent work has shown that human auditory cortex contains neural populations anterior and
posterior to primary auditory cortex that respond selectively to music. However, it is unknown …

The brain has a large capacity for automatic simultaneous processing and integration of
sensory information. Combining information from different sensory modalities facilitates our …

Background Music training involves several cognitive functions in the brain, particularly
executive function. Numerous studies have proven a link between the two. Cognitive …