Children's engagement in music practice is associated with enhancements in literacy-
related language skills, as demonstrated by multiple reports of correlation across these two …

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 …

Frequency-following responses (FFRs) are neurophonic potentials that provide a window
into the encoding of complex sounds (eg, speech/music), auditory disorders, and …

Numerous arguments in the recent neuroscientific literature support the use of musical
training as a therapeutic tool among the arsenal already available to therapists and …

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 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 …

Aging is accompanied by cognitive decline, although recent research indicates that the rate
of decline depends on multiple lifestyle factors. One of such factors is musical practice, an …

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

Musicians are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged noise exposure, but they may also be
at risk of early sub-clinical hearing damage, such as cochlear synaptopathy. In the current …

On the basis of previous results showing that music training positively influences different
aspects of speech perception and cognition, the aim of this series of experiments was to test …