Purpose: Musical abilities are associated with the perception of complex acoustic features in
an auditory scene, which requires a good load of cognitive processing. Musical sleepers …

Music exists in almost every society, has universal acoustic features, and is processed by
distinct neural circuits in humans even with no experience of musical training. These …

The Mini Profile of Music Perception Skills (Mini-PROMS) is a rapid performance-based
measure of musical perceptual competence. The present study was designed to determine …

Speech communication requires grouping continuous acoustic cues into meaningful
phonetic units through categorical perception (CP). CP can be measured both behaviorally …

Using individual differences approaches, a growing body of literature finds positive
associations between musicality and language-related abilities, complementing prior …

Fetal hearing experiences shape the linguistic and musical preferences of neonates. From
the very first moment after birth, newborns prefer their native language, recognize their …

To make sense of the auditory world, listeners must organize diverse, continuously varying
sounds into meaningful perceptual categories. The auditory categorization process is …

Research has demonstrated that musical abilities are often linked with language and literacy
skills, including in children with disorders of speech, language, and reading. For example …

У житті нас оточує безліч різноманітних звуків і, звісно, музика. Щодня більшість із нас
слухає різну музику, яка так чи інакше зустрінеться де-небудь, незалежно від того …

As psychosomatic medicine, music has been implicated in the contexts of biological,
emotional and social influence. For mental health, benefits of music would include reducing …