ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019
Short-Term Choir Singing Supports Speech-in-Noise Perception and Neural Pitch Strength in Older Adults With Age-Related Hearing Loss.
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A Multi-domain Intervention to Constrast Cognitive Decline in Healthy Aging
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- No Evidence That Music Training Benefits Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Listeners: A Systematic Review.Trends in hearingPooled it
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- Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Individual differences in auditory scene analysis abilities in music and speech.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Auditory Training for Everyday Functioning in Later Life.Seminars in hearing · 2025Review
- Choir Singing and Music Appreciation Training Enhances Unaided Speech-in-Noise Perception and Frequency Following Responses for Older Adult Hearing Aid Users: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Seminars in hearing · 2025Review
- Auditory working memory mechanisms mediating the relationship between musicianship and auditory stream segregation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Compensation or Preservation? Different Roles of Functional Lateralization in Speech Perception of Older Non-musicians and Musicians.Neuroscience bulletin · 2024Article
- Attention, working memory, and inhibitory control in aging: Comparing amateur singers, instrumentalists, and active controls.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Article
- Musical training does not enhance neural sound encoding at early stages of the auditory system: A large-scale multisite investigation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Audiovisual integration in the McGurk effect is impervious to music training.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Short- and long-term neuroplasticity interact during the perceptual learning of concurrent speech.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
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- The Effects of Piano Training on Auditory Processing, Cognition, and Everyday Function.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2023Article
- Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception.Science advances · 2023Article
- Are musical activities associated with enhanced speech perception in noise in adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Current research in neurobiology · 2023Review
- Longitudinal effects of choir singing on aging cognition and wellbeing: a two-year follow-up study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Prior studies have demonstrated musicianship enhancements of various aspects of auditory and cognitive processing in older adults, but musical training has rarely been examined as an intervention for mitigating age-related declines in these abilities. The current study investigates whether 10 weeks of choir participation can improve aspects of auditory processing in older adults, particularly speech-in-noise (SIN) perception. A choir-singing group and an age- and audiometrically-matched do-nothing control group underwent pre- and post-testing over a 10-week period. Linear mixed effects modeling in a regression analysis showed that choir participants demonstrated improvements in speech-in-noise perception, pitch discrimination ability, and the strength of the neural representation of speech fundamental frequency. Choir participants' gains in SIN perception were mediated by improvements in pitch discrimination, which was in turn predicted by the strength of the neural representation of speech stimuli (FFR), suggesting improvements in pitch processing as a possible mechanism for this SIN perceptual improvement. These findings support the hypothesis that short-term choir participation is an effective intervention for mitigating age-related hearing losses.
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