From auditory perception to general cognition, the ability to play a musical instrument has
been associated with skills both related and unrelated to music. However, it is unclear if …

The voice-tagging hypothesis claims that individuals who better represent pitch information
in a speaker's voice, as measured with the frequency following response (FFR), will be …

Hearing abilities decline with age, and one of the most commonly reported hearing issues in
older adults is a difficulty understanding speech when there is loud background noise …

The speech-to-song illusion is a robust effect where repeated speech induces the
perception of singing; this effect has been extended to repeated excerpts of environmental …

Listeners can use the way people speak (prosody) or what people say (semantics) to infer
vocal emotions. It can be speculated that bilinguals and musicians can better use the former …

Our perceptual system bins elements of the speech signal into categories to make speech
perception manageable. Here, we aimed to test whether hearing speech in categories (as …

The “cocktail party problem” challenges our ability to understand speech in noisy
environments, which often include background music. Here, we explored the role of …

Studies over the past two decades have provided relevant data on the relationship between
music and reading abilities although they fundamentally refer to aspects of the first language …

In our article (1) on nature-vs.-nurture effects of auditory plasticity, we challenge long-held
assumptions on the neural benefits of musical training by showing that inherent auditory …

Music learning induces significant neural changes, enhancing auditory, verbal, and
visuospatial skills, IQ, and speech perception. Research studies reveal structural and …