ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Improved Speech in Noise Perception in the Elderly After 6 Months of Musical Instruction.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Quality of life in older adults is enhanced by piano practice: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Trial
- Cognitive enrichment through art: a randomized controlled trial on the effect of music or visual arts group practice on cognitive and brain development of young children.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Trial
- 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
- Examining sound levels across different time scales measured from body-worn dosimeters.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Auditory working memory mechanisms mediating the relationship between musicianship and auditory stream segregation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A Descriptive Study on the Effect of Music on Speech-in-Noise Perception in Binaural and Monaural Hearing Aid Users.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- Age-related neural changes underlying long-term recognition of musical sequences.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Meludia platform as a tool to evaluate music perception in pediatric and adult cochlear implant users.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- Age and familiarity effects on musical memory.PloS one · 2024Article
- Sensorimotor Impairment in Aging and Neurocognitive Disorders: Beat Synchronization and Adaptation to Tempo Changes.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Article
- Short communication: Lifetime musical activity and resting-state functional connectivity in cognitive networks.PloS one · 2024Article
- Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Musical Expertise and Executive Functions in Experienced Musicians.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The Effects of Piano Training on Auditory Processing, Cognition, and Everyday Function.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2023Article
- Music interventions in 132 healthy older adults enhance cerebellar grey matter and auditory working memory, despite general brain atrophy.Neuroimage. Reports · 2023Article
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- Musical Activity During Life Is Associated With Multi-Domain Cognitive and Brain Benefits in Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Working-Memory, Alpha-Theta Oscillations and Musical Training in Older Age: Research Perspectives for Speech-on-speech Perception.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- Six Months of Piano Training in Healthy Elderly Stabilizes White Matter Microstructure in the Fornix, Compared to an Active Control Group.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Understanding speech in background noise poses a challenge in daily communication, which is a particular problem among the elderly. Although musical expertise has often been suggested to be a contributor to speech intelligibility, the associations are mostly correlative. In the present multisite study conducted in Germany and Switzerland, 156 healthy, normal-hearing elderly were randomly assigned to either piano playing or music listening/musical culture groups. The speech reception threshold was assessed using the International Matrix Test before and after a 6 month intervention. Bayesian multilevel modeling revealed an improvement of both groups over time under binaural conditions. Additionally, the speech reception threshold of the piano group decreased during stimuli presentation to the left ear. A right ear improvement only occurred in the German piano group. Furthermore, improvements were predominantly found in women. These findings are discussed in the light of current neuroscientific theories on hemispheric lateralization and biological sex differences. The study indicates a positive transfer from musical training to speech processing, probably supported by the enhancement of auditory processing and improvement of general cognitive functions.
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