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 …

The human soundscape is characterized by complex sounds with rich harmonic structures,
dynamic amplitude modulations, and rapid spectrotemporal fluctuations. This complexity is …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Power of Music a research synthesis of the impact of actively
making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young …

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech.
This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The “OPERA” hypothesis …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

A growing body of research suggests that cognitive functions, such as attention and memory,
drive perception by tuning sensory mechanisms to relevant acoustic features. Long-term …

Although it is largely agreed that phonological processing deficits are a major cause of poor
reading, the neural origins of phonological processing are not well understood. We now …

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 …