Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …

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 …

Experience-dependent characteristics of auditory function, especially with regard to speech-
evoked auditory neurophysiology, have garnered increasing attention in recent years. This …

human hearing depends on a combination of cognitive and sensory processes that function
by means of an interactive circuitry of bottom-up and top-down neural pathways, extending …

Training programs aimed to improve cognitive skills have either yielded mixed results or
remain to be validated. The limited benefits of such regimens are largely attributable to weak …

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 effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

Experience has a profound influence on how sound is processed in the brain. Yet little is
known about how enriched experiences interact with developmental processes to shape …

Musicians benefit from real‐life advantages, such as a greater ability to hear speech in noise
and to remember sounds, although the biological mechanisms driving such advantages …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show for the first time that levels of
musical expertise stepwise modulate higher order brain functioning. This suggests that …