Musical instrument training has been linked to improved academic and cognitive abilities in
children, but it remains unclear why this occurs. Moreover, access to instrument training is …

Auditory selective attention forms an important foundation of children's learning by enabling
the prioritisation and encoding of relevant stimuli. It may also influence reading …

Aging leads to degeneration of the peripheral and central auditory systems, hearing loss,
and difficulty understanding sounds in noise. Aging is also associated with changes in …

Previous research has shown that musicians have enhanced visual-spatial abilities and
sensory-motor skills. As a result of their long-term musical training and their experience …

This study examined the second-language (L2) English abilities of musically trained and
untrained primary school children. Participants were tested on the verbal subscales of the …

Every day we communicate using complex linguistic and musical systems, yet these modern
systems are the product of a much more ancient relationship with sound. When we speak …

Musical training has been shown to have positive effects on several aspects of speech
processing, however, the effects of musical training on the neural processing of speech …

This study investigated whether a short intensive psychophysical auditory training program
is associated with speech perception benefits and changes in cortical auditory evoked …

Musical behaviors activate nearly every region of the brain that has so far been mapped.
These neural structures are reviewed in a domain-specific overview to include the stimulus …

Recently, age‐related hippocampal (HP) volume loss could be associated with a decrease
in general fluid intelligence (gF). In the present study we investigated whether and how …