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 …

Increasing evidence suggests that musical expertise influences brain organization and brain
functions. Moreover, results at the behavioral and neurophysiological levels reveal that …

This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naïve
Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their …

The current study investigates the learning of nonnative suprasegmental patterns for word
identification. Native English-speaking adults learned to use suprasegmentals (pitch …

Building on her earlier work,'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of
Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and …

A same–different task was used to test the hypothesis that musical expertise improves the
discrimination of tonal and segmental (consonant, vowel) variations in a tone language …

This study examined Mandarin tone identification by 36 English-speaking musicians and 36
nonmusicians and musical note identification by the musicians. In the Mandarin task …

Adult non-native speech perception is subject to influence from multiple factors, including
linguistic and extralinguistic experience such as musical training. The present research …

Tone languages such as Mandarin use voice pitch to signal lexical contrasts, presenting a
challenge for second/foreign language (L2) learners whose native languages do not use …

Given its practical implications, the effect of musicianship on language learning has been
vastly researched. Interestingly, growing evidence also suggests that language experience …