You are on the phone, walking down a street. This daily situation calls for selective attention,
allowing you to ignore surrounding irrelevant sounds, while trying to encode in memory the …

Music-based speech language interventions have shown promise to support young children
with autism, other speech and language deficits, and Dual Language Learners (also known …

Extensive training of repetitive and highly skilled movements, as it occurs in professional
classical musicians, may lead to changes in tactile sensitivity and corresponding cortical …

Musical training is associated with increased structural and functional connectivity between
auditory sensory areas and higher-order brain networks involved in speech and motor …

Poor attention skills constitute a major problem for psychiatric patients with psychotic
symptoms, and increase their chances of treatment drop-out. This study investigated …

Although art is often considered to be a means for maximizing human potential, the causes
and consequences of artistic experiences are poorly understood. The present chapter …

A growing body of research has been studying cognitive benefits that arise from music
training in childhood or adulthood. Many studies focus specifically on the cognitive transfer …

In listening to multi-part music, auditory streams can be attended to either selectively or
globally. More specifically, musicians rely on prioritized integrative attention which …

Background Regular cognitive training can boost or maintain cognitive and brain functions
known to decline with age. Most studies administered such cognitive training on a computer …

In our daily lives, auditory stream segregation allows us to differentiate concurrent sound
sources and to make sense of the scene we are experiencing. However, a combination of …