We asked whether adults have accurate self-awareness of their musical ability, and whether
such self-awareness relates to other individual differences. Participants (N= 256) rated how …

Music engagement is a powerful, influential experience that often begins early in life. Music
engagement is moderately heritable in adults (~ 41–69%), but fewer studies have examined …

Music training, in all its forms, is known to have an impact on behavior both in childhood and
even in aging. In the delicate life period of transition from childhood to adulthood, music …

Limited evidence has shown that practising musical activities in aging, such as choral
singing, could lessen age-related speech perception in noise (SPiN) difficulties. However …

In the context of extensive disciplinary integration, researchers worldwide have increasingly
focused on musical ability. However, despite the wide range of available music ability tests …

Previous studies have found conflicting results between individual measures related to
music and fundamental aspects of auditory perception and cognition. The results have been …

A training method to improve speech hearing in noise has proven elusive, with most
methods failing to transfer to untrained tasks. One common approach to identify potentially …

Perceiving speech in noise (SIN) is important for health and well-being and decreases with
age. Musicians show improved speech-in-noise abilities and reduced age-related auditory …

Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although
correlational data highlight positive associations, experimental results are inconclusive …

The current study tested the hypothesis that the association between musical ability and
vocal emotion recognition skills is mediated by accuracy in prosody perception …