A growing body of research suggests that musical training has a beneficial impact on
speech processing (eg, hearing of speech in noise and prosody perception). As this …

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 …

The language history questionnaire (LHQ) is an important tool for assessing the linguistic
background and language proficiency of multilinguals or second language learners …

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 …

Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish
words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to …

Background Several studies have found that musicians perform better than nonmusicians in
memory tasks, but this is not always the case, and the strength of this apparent advantage is …

There is a general consensus that music is both universal and communicative, and musical
dialogue is a key element in much music-therapeutic practice. However, the idea that music …

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 …

Sensitive periods in human development have often been proposed to explain age-related
differences in the attainment of a number of skills, such as a second language (L2) and …

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 …