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

Musicianship is associated with neuroplastic changes in brainstem and cortical structures,
as well as improved acuity for behaviorally relevant sounds including speech. However …

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 …

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 …

Does musical training affect our perception of speech? For example, does learning to play a
musical instrument modify the neural circuitry for auditory processing in a way that improves …

There is increasing evidence that humans and other nonhuman mammals are sensitive to
the statistical structure of auditory input. Indeed, neural sensitivity to statistical regularities …

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' …

One of the benefits musicians derive from their training is an increased ability to detect small
differences between sounds. Here, we asked whether musicians' experience discriminating …

While hearing in noise is a complex task, even in high levels of noise humans demonstrate
remarkable hearing ability. Binaural hearing, which involves the integration and analysis of …

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 …