Musicianship can mitigate age-related declines in audiovisual speech-in-noise perception.
We tested whether this benefit originates from functional preservation or functional …

Music training is generally assumed to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities. Although
correlational data highlight positive associations, experimental results are inconclusive …

Bayesian inference has recently gained momentum in explaining music perception and
aging. A fundamental mechanism underlying Bayesian inference is the notion of prediction …

Considerable debate exists about the interplay between auditory and motor speech
systems. Some argue for common neural mechanisms, whereas others assert that there are …

Despite the ubiquity of musical activities, little is known about the specificity of their
association with executive functions. In this cross‐sectional study, we examined this …

Abstract Purpose Task-independent (eg, Ballard et al., 2003) and task-dependent models
(eg, Ziegler, 2003) differ in their predictions regarding the learning transfer from non-speech …

This article reports on vowel clarity metrics based on spectrotemporal modulations of speech
signals. Motivated by previous findings on the relevance of modulation-based metrics for …

Healthy aging is associated with extensive changes in brain structure and physiology, with
impacts on cognition and communication. The “mental exercise hypothesis” proposes that …

The global ageing of populations calls for effective, ecologically valid methods to support
brain health across adult life. Previous evidence suggests that music can promote white …

Singing-based treatments of aphasia can improve language outcomes, but the neural
benefits of group-based singing in aphasia are unknown. Here, we set out to determine the …