For children, learning often occurs in the presence of background noise. As such, there is
growing desire to improve a child's access to a target signal in noise. Given adult musicians' …

Musicians have increased resilience to the effects of noise on speech perception and its
neural underpinnings. We do not know, however, how early in life these enhancements …

The perception and neural representation of acoustically similar speech sounds underlie
language development. Music training hones the perception of minute acoustic differences …

Music training may strengthen auditory skills that help children not only in musical
performance but in everyday communication. Comparisons of musicians and non-musicians …

Musical training strengthens speech perception in the presence of background noise. Given
that the ability to make use of speech sound regularities, such as pitch, underlies perceptual …

Even in the quietest of rooms, our senses are perpetually inundated by a barrage of sounds,
requiring the auditory system to adapt to a variety of listening conditions in order to extract …

The ability to understand speech in the presence of competing sound sources is an
important neuroscience question in terms of how the nervous system solves this …

Musical training is associated with a myriad of neuroplastic changes in the brain, including
more robust and efficient neural processing of clean and degraded speech signals at …

CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE-BASED LEARNING disorders show impaired processing of
speech in challenging listening environments, suggesting a noise-exclusion deficit. Musical …

The idea that musical training improves speech perception in challenging listening
environments is appealing and of clinical importance, yet the mechanisms of any such …