ArticleScientific reports2019
Speech perception is similar for musicians and non-musicians across a wide range of conditions.
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- Relationship between early musical training and detection of binaural gap based on interaural correlation change.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Effects of spectral manipulations of music mixes on musical scene analysis abilities of hearing-impaired listeners.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Exploring the role of singing, semantics, and amusia screening in speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians.Cognitive processing · 2024Article
- Benefits of Harmonicity for Hearing in Noise Are Limited to Detection and Pitch-Related Discrimination Tasks.Biology · 2023Article
- Are musical activities associated with enhanced speech perception in noise in adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Current research in neurobiology · 2023Review
- Performance on stochastic figure-ground perception varies with individual differences in speech-in-noise recognition and working memory capacity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Domain-specific hearing-in-noise performance is associated with absolute pitch proficiency.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Amateur singing benefits speech perception in aging under certain conditions of practice: behavioural and neurobiological mechanisms.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Harmonicity aids hearing in noise.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Making sense of periodicity glimpses in a prediction-update-loop-A computational model of attentive voice tracking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
It remains unclear whether musical training is associated with improved speech understanding in a noisy environment, with different studies reaching differing conclusions. Even in those studies that have reported an advantage for highly trained musicians, it is not known whether the benefits measured in laboratory tests extend to more ecologically valid situations. This study aimed to establish whether musicians are better than non-musicians at understanding speech in a background of competing speakers or speech-shaped noise under more realistic conditions, involving sounds presented in space via a spherical array of 64 loudspeakers, rather than over headphones, with and without simulated room reverberation. The study also included experiments testing fundamental frequency discrimination limens (F0DLs), interaural time differences limens (ITDLs), and attentive tracking. Sixty-four participants (32 non-musicians and 32 musicians) were tested, with the two groups matched in age, sex, and IQ as assessed with Raven's Advanced Progressive matrices. There was a significant benefit of musicianship for F0DLs, ITDLs, and attentive tracking. However, speech scores were not significantly different between the two groups. The results suggest no musician advantage for understanding speech in background noise or talkers under a variety of conditions.
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