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

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 …

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 …

Age-related decline in hearing abilities is a ubiquitous part of aging, and commonly impacts
speech understanding, especially when there are competing sound sources. While 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 …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory and motor experience that is
typically initiated at an early age and requires the acquisition and practice of a wide range of …

Musicianship in early life is associated with pervasive changes in brain function and
enhanced speech-language skills. Whether these neuroplastic benefits extend to older …

Musical training improves auditory processing abilities, which correlates with neuro-plastic
changes in exogenous (input-driven) and endogenous (attention-dependent) components of …

Aging results in pervasive declines in nervous system function. In the auditory system, these
declines include neural timing delays in response to fast-changing speech elements; this …

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 …