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Mittelstadt JK, Shilling-Scrivo KV, Kanold PO. Long-term training alters response dynamics in the aging auditory cortex. Hear Res 2024; 444:108965. [PMID: 38364511 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.108965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
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Age-related auditory dysfunction, presbycusis, is caused in part by functional changes in the auditory cortex (ACtx) such as altered response dynamics and increased population correlations. Given the ability of cortical function to be altered by training, we tested if performing auditory tasks might benefit auditory function in old age. We examined this by training adult mice on a low-effort tone-detection task for at least six months and then investigated functional responses in ACtx at an older age (∼18 months). Task performance remained stable well into old age. Comparing sound-evoked responses of thousands of ACtx neurons using in vivo 2-photon Ca2+ imaging, we found that many aspects of youthful neuronal activity, including low activity correlations, lower neural excitability, and a greater proportion of suppressed responses, were preserved in trained old animals as compared to passively-exposed old animals. Thus, consistent training on a low-effort task can benefit age-related functional changes in ACtx and may preserve many aspects of auditory function.
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- Jonah K Mittelstadt
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21230, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Gohari N, Dastgerdi ZH, Rouhbakhsh N, Afshar S, Mobini R. Training Programs for Improving Speech Perception in Noise: A Review. J Audiol Otol 2023; 27:1-9. [PMID: 36710414 PMCID: PMC9884994 DOI: 10.7874/jao.2022.00283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Understanding speech in the presence of noise is difficult and challenging, even for people with normal hearing. Accurate pitch perception, coding and decoding of temporal and intensity cues, and cognitive factors are involved in speech perception in noise (SPIN); disruption in any of these can be a barrier to SPIN. Because the physiological representations of sounds can be corrected by exercises, training methods for any impairment can be used to improve speech perception. This study describes the various types of bottom-up training methods: pitch training based on fundamental frequency (F0) and harmonics; spatial, temporal, and phoneme training; and top-down training methods, such as cognitive training of functional memory. This study also discusses music training that affects both bottom-up and top-down components and speech training in noise. Given the effectiveness of all these training methods, we recommend identifying the defects underlying SPIN disorders and selecting the best training approach.
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- Nasrin Gohari
- Hearing Disorders Research Center, Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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- Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran,Address for correspondence Zahra Hosseini Dastgerdi, PhD Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Tel +98-09132947800 Fax +98-(311)5145-668 E-mail
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- Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Hearing Disorders Research Center, Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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- Hearing Disorders Research Center, Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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Sauvé SA, Marozeau J, Rich Zendel B. The effects of aging and musicianship on the use of auditory streaming cues. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0274631. [PMID: 36137151 PMCID: PMC9498935 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Auditory stream segregation, or separating sounds into their respective sources and tracking them over time, is a fundamental auditory ability. Previous research has separately explored the impacts of aging and musicianship on the ability to separate and follow auditory streams. The current study evaluated the simultaneous effects of age and musicianship on auditory streaming induced by three physical features: intensity, spectral envelope and temporal envelope. In the first study, older and younger musicians and non-musicians with normal hearing identified deviants in a four-note melody interleaved with distractors that were more or less similar to the melody in terms of intensity, spectral envelope and temporal envelope. In the second study, older and younger musicians and non-musicians participated in a dissimilarity rating paradigm with pairs of melodies that differed along the same three features. Results suggested that auditory streaming skills are maintained in older adults but that older adults rely on intensity more than younger adults while musicianship is associated with increased sensitivity to spectral and temporal envelope, acoustic features that are typically less effective for stream segregation, particularly in older adults.
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- Sarah A. Sauvé
- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Choi W. Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH 2022; 65:697-712. [PMID: 34615397 DOI: 10.1177/00238309211049458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Musical experience facilitates speech perception. French musicians, to whom stress is foreign, have been found to perceive English stress more accurately than French non-musicians. This study investigated whether this musical advantage also applies to native listeners. English musicians and non-musicians completed an English stress discrimination task and two control tasks. With age, non-verbal intelligence and short-term memory controlled, the musicians exhibited a perceptual advantage relative to the non-musicians. This perceptual advantage was equally potent to both trochaic and iambic stress patterns. In terms of perceptual strategy, the two groups showed differential use of acoustic cues for iambic but not trochaic stress. Collectively, the results could be taken to suggest that musical experience enhances stress discrimination even among native listeners. Remarkably, this musical advantage is highly consistent and does not particularly favour either stress pattern. For iambic stress, the musical advantage appears to stem from the differential use of acoustic cues by musicians. For trochaic stress, the musical advantage may be rooted in enhanced durational sensitivity.
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- William Choi
- Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Christiner M, Renner J, Groß C, Seither-Preisler A, Benner J, Schneider P. Singing Mandarin? What Short-Term Memory Capacity, Basic Auditory Skills, and Musical and Singing Abilities Reveal About Learning Mandarin. Front Psychol 2022; 13:895063. [PMID: 35783693 PMCID: PMC9245042 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Learning Mandarin has become increasingly important in the Western world but is rather difficult to be learnt by speakers of non-tone languages. Since tone language learning requires very precise tonal ability, we set out to test whether musical skills, musical status, singing ability, singing behavior during childhood, basic auditory skills, and short-term memory ability contribute to individual differences in Mandarin performance. Therefore, we developed Mandarin tone discrimination and pronunciation tasks to assess individual differences in adult participants’ (N = 109) tone language ability. Results revealed that short-term memory capacity, singing ability, pitch perception preferences, and tone frequency (high vs. low tones) were the most important predictors, which explained individual differences in the Mandarin performances of our participants. Therefore, it can be concluded that training of basic auditory skills, musical training including singing should be integrated in the educational setting for speakers of non-tone languages who learn tone languages such as Mandarin.
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- Markus Christiner
- Center for Systematic Musicology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Latvia
- *Correspondence: Markus Christiner,
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- Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Section Biomagnetism Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Section Biomagnetism Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Systematic Musicology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Latvia
- Department of Neuroradiology, Section Biomagnetism Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Section Biomagnetism Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany
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Zendel BR. The importance of the motor system in the development of music-based forms of auditory rehabilitation. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2022; 1515:10-19. [PMID: 35648040 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hearing abilities decline with age, and one of the most commonly reported hearing issues in older adults is a difficulty understanding speech when there is loud background noise. Understanding speech in noise relies on numerous cognitive processes, including working memory, and is supported by numerous brain regions, including the motor and motor planning systems. Indeed, many working memory processes are supported by motor and premotor cortical regions. Interestingly, lifelong musicians and nonmusicians given music training over the course of weeks or months show an improved ability to understand speech when there is loud background noise. These benefits are associated with enhanced working memory abilities, and enhanced activity in motor and premotor cortical regions. Accordingly, it is likely that music training improves the coupling between the auditory and motor systems and promotes plasticity in these regions and regions that feed into auditory/motor areas. This leads to an enhanced ability to dynamically process incoming acoustic information, and is likely the reason that musicians and those who receive laboratory-based music training are better able to understand speech when there is background noise. Critically, these findings suggest that music-based forms of auditory rehabilitation are possible and should focus on tasks that promote auditory-motor interactions.
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- Benjamin Rich Zendel
- Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.,Aging Research Centre - Newfoundland and Labrador, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Hennessy S, Mack WJ, Habibi A. Speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians: A multi-level meta-analysis. Hear Res 2022; 416:108442. [PMID: 35078132 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2022.108442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Speech-in-noise perception, the ability to hear a relevant voice within a noisy background, is important for successful communication. Musicians have been reported to perform better than non-musicians on speech-in-noise tasks. This meta-analysis uses a multi-level design to assess the claim that musicians have superior speech-in-noise abilities compared to non-musicians. Across 31 studies and 62 effect sizes, the overall effect of musician status on speech-in-noise ability is significant, with a moderate effect size (g = 0.58), 95% CI [0.42, 0.74]. The overall effect of musician status was not moderated by within-study IQ equivalence, target stimulus, target contextual information, type of background noise, or age. We conclude that musicians show superior speech-in-noise abilities compared to non-musicians, not modified by age, IQ, or speech task parameters. These effects may reflect changes due to music training or predisposed auditory advantages that encourage musicianship.
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- Sarah Hennessy
- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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Impact of Early Rhythmic Training on Language Acquisition and Electrophysiological Functioning Underlying Auditory Processing: Feasibility and Preliminary Findings in Typically Developing Infants. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11111546. [PMID: 34827544 PMCID: PMC8615969 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11111546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Previous evidence has shown that early auditory processing impacts later linguistic development, and targeted training implemented at early ages can enhance auditory processing skills, with better expected language development outcomes. This study focuses on typically developing infants and aims to test the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of music training based on active synchronization with complex musical rhythms on the linguistic outcomes and electrophysiological functioning underlying auditory processing. Fifteen infants participated in the training (RTr+) and were compared with two groups of infants not attending any structured activities during the same time frame (RTr−, N = 14). At pre- and post-training, expressive and receptive language skills were assessed using standardized tests, and auditory processing skills were characterized through an electrophysiological non-speech multi-feature paradigm. Results reveal that RTr+ infants showed significantly broader improvement in both expressive and receptive pre-language skills. Moreover, at post-training, they presented an electrophysiological pattern characterized by shorter latency of two peaks (N2* and P2), reflecting a neural change detection process: these shifts in latency go beyond those seen due to maturation alone. These results provide preliminary evidence on the efficacy of our training in improving early linguistic competences, and in modifying the neural underpinnings of auditory processing in infants.
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Zheng Y, Zhao Z, Yang X, Li X. The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2021; 221:105006. [PMID: 34392023 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Musical experience has been found to aid speech perception. This electroencephalography study further examined whether and how musical expertise affects high-level predictive semantic processing in speech comprehension. Musicians and non-musicians listened to semantically strongly/weakly constraining sentences, with each sentence being primed by a congruent/incongruent sentence-prosody. At the target nouns, a N400 reduction effect (strongly vs. weakly constraining) was observed in both groups, with the onset-latency of this effect being delayed for incongruent (vs. congruent) priming. At the transitive verbs preceding these target nouns, musicians' event-related-potential amplitude (in incongruent-priming) and beta-band oscillatory power (in congruent- and incongruent-priming) showed a semantic-constraint effect, and were correlated with the predictability of incoming nouns; non-musicians only demonstrated an event-related-potential semantic-constraint effect, which was correlated with the predictability of current verbs. These results indicate musical expertise enhances semantic prediction tendency in speech comprehension, and this effect might be not just an aftereffect of facilitated acoustic/phonological processing.
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- Yuanyi Zheng
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China.
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Individual differences in human frequency-following response predict pitch labeling ability. Sci Rep 2021; 11:14290. [PMID: 34253760 PMCID: PMC8275664 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93312-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The frequency-following response (FFR) provides a measure of phase-locked auditory encoding in humans and has been used to study subcortical processing in the auditory system. While effects of experience on the FFR have been reported, few studies have examined whether individual differences in early sensory encoding have measurable effects on human performance. Absolute pitch (AP), the rare ability to label musical notes without reference notes, provides an excellent model system for testing how early neural encoding supports specialized auditory skills. Results show that the FFR predicts pitch labelling performance better than traditional measures related to AP (age of music onset, tonal language experience, pitch adjustment and just-noticeable-difference scores). Moreover, the stimulus type used to elicit the FFR (tones or speech) impacts predictive performance in a manner that is consistent with prior research. Additionally, the FFR predicts labelling performance for piano tones better than unfamiliar sine tones. Taken together, the FFR reliably distinguishes individuals based on their explicit pitch labeling abilities, which highlights the complex dynamics between sensory processing and cognition.
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Benet N, Krishna R, Kumar V. Enhancement of Processing Capabilities of Hippocampus Lobe: A P300 Based Event Related Potential Study. J Audiol Otol 2021; 25:119-123. [PMID: 34185979 PMCID: PMC8311054 DOI: 10.7874/jao.2021.00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background and Objectives The influence of music training on different areas of the brain has been extensively researched, but the underlying neurobehavioral mechanisms remain unknown. In the present study, the effects of training for more than three years in Carnatic music (an Indian form of music) on the discrimination ability of different areas of the brain were tested using P300 analysis at three electrode placement sites. Subjects and Methods A total of 27 individuals, including 13 singers aged 16-30 years (mean±standard deviation, 23±3.2 years) and 14 non-singers aged 16-30 years (mean age, 24±2.9 years), participated in this study. The singers had 3-5 years of formal training experience in Carnatic music. Cortical activities in areas corresponding to attention, discrimination, and memory were tested using P300 analysis, and the tests were performed using the Intelligent Hearing System. Results The mean P300 amplitude of the singers at the Fz electrode placement site (5.64±1.81) was significantly higher than that of the non-singers (3.85±1.60; t(25)=3.3, p<0.05). The amplitude at the Cz electrode placement site in singers (5.90±2.18) was significantly higher than that in non-singers (3.46±1.40; t(25)=3.3, p<0.05). The amplitude at the Pz electrode placement site in singers (4.94±1.89) was significantly higher than that in non-singers (3.57±1.50; t(25)=3.3, p<0.05). Among singers, the mean P300 amplitude was significantly higher in the Cz site than the other placement sites, and among non-singers, the mean P300 amplitude was significantly higher in the Fz site than the other placement sites, i.e., music training facilitated enhancement of the P300 amplitude at the Cz site. Conclusions The findings of this study suggest that more than three years of training in Carnatic singing can enhance neural coding to discriminate subtle differences, leading to enhanced discrimination abilities of the brain, mainly in the generation site corresponding to Cz electrode placement.
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- Neelesh Benet
- Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, India.,All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, India
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- Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, India
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Li X, Zatorre RJ, Du Y. The Microstructural Plasticity of the Arcuate Fasciculus Undergirds Improved Speech in Noise Perception in Musicians. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:3975-3985. [PMID: 34037726 PMCID: PMC8328222 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Musical training is thought to be related to improved language skills, for example, understanding speech in background noise. Although studies have found that musicians and nonmusicians differed in morphology of bilateral arcuate fasciculus (AF), none has associated such white matter features with speech-in-noise (SIN) perception. Here, we tested both SIN and the diffusivity of bilateral AF segments in musicians and nonmusicians using diffusion tensor imaging. Compared with nonmusicians, musicians had higher fractional anisotropy (FA) in the right direct AF and lower radial diffusivity in the left anterior AF, which correlated with SIN performance. The FA-based laterality index showed stronger right lateralization of the direct AF and stronger left lateralization of the posterior AF in musicians than nonmusicians, with the posterior AF laterality predicting SIN accuracy. Furthermore, hemodynamic activity in right superior temporal gyrus obtained during a SIN task played a full mediation role in explaining the contribution of the right direct AF diffusivity on SIN performance, which therefore links training-related white matter plasticity, brain hemodynamics, and speech perception ability. Our findings provide direct evidence that differential microstructural plasticity of bilateral AF segments may serve as a neural foundation of the cross-domain transfer effect of musical experience to speech perception amid competing noise.
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- Xiaonan Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.,International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.,Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai 200031, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.,Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 102206, China
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Hennessy S, Wood A, Wilcox R, Habibi A. Neurophysiological improvements in speech-in-noise task after short-term choir training in older adults. Aging (Albany NY) 2021; 13:9468-9495. [PMID: 33824226 PMCID: PMC8064162 DOI: 10.18632/aging.202931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Perceiving speech in noise (SIN) is important for health and well-being and decreases with age. Musicians show improved speech-in-noise abilities and reduced age-related auditory decline, yet it is unclear whether short term music engagement has similar effects. In this randomized control trial we used a pre-post design to investigate whether a 12-week music intervention in adults aged 50-65 without prior music training and with subjective hearing loss improves well-being, speech-in-noise abilities, and auditory encoding and voluntary attention as indexed by auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) in a syllable-in-noise task, and later AEPs in an oddball task. Age and gender-matched adults were randomized to a choir or control group. Choir participants sang in a 2-hr ensemble with 1-hr home vocal training weekly; controls listened to a 3-hr playlist weekly, attended concerts, and socialized online with fellow participants. From pre- to post-intervention, no differences between groups were observed on quantitative measures of well-being or behavioral speech-in-noise abilities. In the choir group, but not the control group, changes in the N1 component were observed for the syllable-in-noise task, with increased N1 amplitude in the passive condition and decreased N1 latency in the active condition. During the oddball task, larger N1 amplitudes to the frequent standard stimuli were also observed in the choir but not control group from pre to post intervention. Findings have implications for the potential role of music training to improve sound encoding in individuals who are in the vulnerable age range and at risk of auditory decline.
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- Sarah Hennessy
- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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MEG Intersubject Phase Locking of Stimulus-Driven Activity during Naturalistic Speech Listening Correlates with Musical Training. J Neurosci 2021; 41:2713-2722. [PMID: 33536196 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0932-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Revised: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Musical training is associated with increased structural and functional connectivity between auditory sensory areas and higher-order brain networks involved in speech and motor processing. Whether such changed connectivity patterns facilitate the cortical propagation of speech information in musicians remains poorly understood. We here used magnetoencephalography (MEG) source imaging and a novel seed-based intersubject phase-locking approach to investigate the effects of musical training on the interregional synchronization of stimulus-driven neural responses during listening to naturalistic continuous speech presented in silence. MEG data were obtained from 20 young human subjects (both sexes) with different degrees of musical training. Our data show robust bilateral patterns of stimulus-driven interregional phase synchronization between auditory cortex and frontotemporal brain regions previously associated with speech processing. Stimulus-driven phase locking was maximal in the delta band, but was also observed in the theta and alpha bands. The individual duration of musical training was positively associated with the magnitude of stimulus-driven alpha-band phase locking between auditory cortex and parts of the dorsal and ventral auditory processing streams. These findings provide evidence for a positive relationship between musical training and the propagation of speech-related information between auditory sensory areas and higher-order processing networks, even when speech is presented in silence. We suggest that the increased synchronization of higher-order cortical regions to auditory cortex may contribute to the previously described musician advantage in processing speech in background noise.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Musical training has been associated with widespread structural and functional brain plasticity. It has been suggested that these changes benefit the production and perception of music but can also translate to other domains of auditory processing, such as speech. We developed a new magnetoencephalography intersubject analysis approach to study the cortical synchronization of stimulus-driven neural responses during the perception of continuous natural speech and its relationship to individual musical training. Our results provide evidence that musical training is associated with higher synchronization of stimulus-driven activity between brain regions involved in early auditory sensory and higher-order processing. We suggest that the increased synchronized propagation of speech information may contribute to the previously described musician advantage in processing speech in background noise.
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Lester-Smith RA, Daliri A, Enos N, Abur D, Lupiani AA, Letcher S, Stepp CE. The Relation of Articulatory and Vocal Auditory-Motor Control in Typical Speakers. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2020; 63:3628-3642. [PMID: 33079610 PMCID: PMC8582832 DOI: 10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between feedback and feedforward control of articulation and voice by measuring reflexive and adaptive responses to first formant (F 1) and fundamental frequency (f o) perturbations. In addition, perception of F 1 and f o perturbation was estimated using passive (listening) and active (speaking) just noticeable difference paradigms to assess the relation of auditory acuity to reflexive and adaptive responses. Method Twenty healthy women produced single words and sustained vowels while the F 1 or f o of their auditory feedback was suddenly and unpredictably perturbed to assess reflexive responses or gradually and predictably perturbed to assess adaptive responses. Results Typical speakers' reflexive responses to sudden perturbation of F 1 were related to their adaptive responses to gradual perturbation of F 1. Specifically, speakers with larger reflexive responses to sudden perturbation of F 1 had larger adaptive responses to gradual perturbation of F 1. Furthermore, their reflexive responses to sudden perturbation of F 1 were associated with their passive auditory acuity to F 1 such that speakers with better auditory acuity to F 1 produced larger reflexive responses to sudden perturbations of F 1. Typical speakers' adaptive responses to gradual perturbation of F 1 were not associated with their auditory acuity to F 1. Speakers' reflexive and adaptive responses to perturbation of f o were not related, nor were their responses related to either measure of auditory acuity to f o. Conclusion These findings indicate that there may be disparate feedback and feedforward control mechanisms for articulatory and vocal error correction based on auditory feedback.
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, MA
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, MA
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
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- Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, MA
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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Losorelli S, Kaneshiro B, Musacchia GA, Blevins NH, Fitzgerald MB. Factors influencing classification of frequency following responses to speech and music stimuli. Hear Res 2020; 398:108101. [PMID: 33142106 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.108101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Successful mapping of meaningful labels to sound input requires accurate representation of that sound's acoustic variances in time and spectrum. For some individuals, such as children or those with hearing loss, having an objective measure of the integrity of this representation could be useful. Classification is a promising machine learning approach which can be used to objectively predict a stimulus label from the brain response. This approach has been previously used with auditory evoked potentials (AEP) such as the frequency following response (FFR), but a number of key issues remain unresolved before classification can be translated into clinical practice. Specifically, past efforts at FFR classification have used data from a given subject for both training and testing the classifier. It is also unclear which components of the FFR elicit optimal classification accuracy. To address these issues, we recorded FFRs from 13 adults with normal hearing in response to speech and music stimuli. We compared labeling accuracy of two cross-validation classification approaches using FFR data: (1) a more traditional method combining subject data in both the training and testing set, and (2) a "leave-one-out" approach, in which subject data is classified based on a model built exclusively from the data of other individuals. We also examined classification accuracy on decomposed and time-segmented FFRs. Our results indicate that the accuracy of leave-one-subject-out cross validation approaches that obtained in the more conventional cross-validation classifications while allowing a subject's results to be analysed with respect to normative data pooled from a separate population. In addition, we demonstrate that classification accuracy is highest when the entire FFR is used to train the classifier. Taken together, these efforts contribute key steps toward translation of classification-based machine learning approaches into clinical practice.
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- Steven Losorelli
- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Audiology, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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Lad M, Holmes E, Chu A, Griffiths TD. Speech-in-noise detection is related to auditory working memory precision for frequency. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13997. [PMID: 32814792 PMCID: PMC7438331 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70952-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Speech-in-noise (SiN) perception is a critical aspect of natural listening, deficits in which are a major contributor to the hearing handicap in cochlear hearing loss. Studies suggest that SiN perception correlates with cognitive skills, particularly phonological working memory: the ability to hold and manipulate phonemes or words in mind. We consider here the idea that SiN perception is linked to a more general ability to hold sound objects in mind, auditory working memory, irrespective of whether the objects are speech sounds. This process might help combine foreground elements, like speech, over seconds to aid their separation from the background of an auditory scene. We investigated the relationship between auditory working memory precision and SiN thresholds in listeners with normal hearing. We used a novel paradigm that tests auditory working memory for non-speech sounds that vary in frequency and amplitude modulation (AM) rate. The paradigm yields measures of precision in frequency and AM domains, based on the distribution of participants’ estimates of the target. Across participants, frequency precision correlated significantly with SiN thresholds. Frequency precision also correlated with the number of years of musical training. Measures of phonological working memory did not correlate with SiN detection ability. Our results demonstrate a specific relationship between working memory for frequency and SiN. We suggest that working memory for frequency facilitates the identification and tracking of foreground objects like speech during natural listening. Working memory performance for frequency also correlated with years of musical instrument experience suggesting that the former is potentially modifiable.
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- Meher Lad
- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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Zendel BR, Alexander EJ. Autodidacticism and Music: Do Self-Taught Musicians Exhibit the Same Auditory Processing Advantages as Formally Trained Musicians? Front Neurosci 2020; 14:752. [PMID: 32792899 PMCID: PMC7385409 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Multiple studies have demonstrated that musicians have enhanced auditory processing abilities compared to non-musicians. In these studies, musicians are usually defined as having received some sort of formal music training. One issue with this definition is that there are many musicians who are self-taught. The goal of the current study was to determine if self-taught musicians exhibit different auditory enhancements as their formally trained counterparts. Three groups of participants were recruited: formally trained musicians, who received formal music training through the conservatory or private lessons; self-taught musicians, who learned to play music through informal methods, such as with books, videos, or by ear; non-musicians, who had little or no music experience. Auditory processing abilities were assessed using a speech-in-noise task, a passive pitch oddball task done while recording electrical brain activity, and a melodic tonal violation task, done both actively and passively while recording electrical brain activity. For the melodic tonal violation task, formally trained musicians were better at detecting a tonal violation compared to self-taught musicians, who were in turn better than non-musicians. The P600 evoked by a tonal violation was enhanced in formally trained musicians compared to non-musicians. The P600 evoked by an out-of-key note did not differ between formally trained and self-taught musicians, while the P600 evoked by an out-of-tune note was smaller in self-taught musicians compared to formally trained musicians. No differences were observed between the groups for the other tasks. This pattern of results suggests that music training format impacts auditory processing abilities in musical tasks; however, it is possible that these differences arose due to pre-existing factors and not due to the training itself.
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- Benjamin Rich Zendel
- Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.,Aging Research Centre - Newfoundland and Labrador, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.,Program in Psychology, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL, Canada
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Pesnot Lerousseau J, Hidalgo C, Schön D. Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss. J Clin Med 2020; 9:jcm9041058. [PMID: 32276390 PMCID: PMC7230165 DOI: 10.3390/jcm9041058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Despite the overall success of cochlear implantation, language outcomes remain suboptimal and subject to large inter-individual variability. Early auditory rehabilitation techniques have mostly focused on low-level sensory abilities. However, a new body of literature suggests that cognitive operations are critical for auditory perception remediation. We argue in this paper that musical training is a particularly appealing candidate for such therapies, as it involves highly relevant cognitive abilities, such as temporal predictions, hierarchical processing, and auditory-motor interactions. We review recent studies demonstrating that music can enhance both language perception and production at multiple levels, from syllable processing to turn-taking in natural conversation.
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DU YIHANG, FANG WEINING, QIU HANZHAO. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A METHOD TO ENHANCE AUDITORY ATTENTION DURING CONTINUOUS SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE ENVIRONMENT. J MECH MED BIOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219519419500489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Auditory training (AT) may strengthen auditory skills that help human not only in on-task auditory perception performance but in continuous speech-shaped noise (SSN) environment. AT based on musical material has provided some evidence for an “auditory advantage” in understanding speech-in-noise (SIN), but with a long period training and complex procedure. Experimental research is essential to develop a simplified method named auditory target tracking training (ATT) which refined from musical material is necessary to determine the benefits of training. We developed two kinds of refined AT method: basic auditory target tracking (BAT) training and enhanced auditory target tracking (EAT) training to adult participants ([Formula: see text]) separately for 20 units, assessing performance to perceive speech in noise environment after training. The EAT group presented better speech perception performance than the other groups and no significant differences between BAT group and control group. The training effect of EAT is the most significant when uni-gender SSN and [Formula: see text] dB. Outcomes suggest that efficacy of trained EAT can improve speech perception performance and selective attention during SSN environment. These findings provide an important link between musical-based training and auditory selective attention in real-world, and extended to special vocational training.
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- YIHANG DU
- School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control & Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P. R. China
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Zhang F, Roland C, Rasul D, Cahn S, Liang C, Valencia G. Comparing musicians and non-musicians in signal-in-noise perception. Int J Audiol 2019; 58:717-723. [DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2019.1623424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Fawen Zhang
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Music Theory, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Shenzhen Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Frey A, François C, Chobert J, Velay JL, Habib M, Besson M. Music Training Positively Influences the Preattentive Perception of Voice Onset Time in Children with Dyslexia: A Longitudinal Study. Brain Sci 2019; 9:brainsci9040091. [PMID: 31010099 PMCID: PMC6523730 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci9040091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Previous results showed a positive influence of music training on linguistic abilities at both attentive and preattentive levels. Here, we investigate whether six months of active music training is more efficient than painting training to improve the preattentive processing of phonological parameters based on durations that are often impaired in children with developmental dyslexia (DD). Results were also compared to a control group of Typically Developing (TD) children matched on reading age. We used a Test–Training–Retest procedure and analysed the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and the N1 and N250 components of the Event-Related Potentials to syllables that differed in Voice Onset Time (VOT), vowel duration, and vowel frequency. Results were clear-cut in showing a normalization of the preattentive processing of VOT in children with DD after music training but not after painting training. They also revealed increased N250 amplitude to duration deviant stimuli in children with DD after music but not painting training, and no training effect on the preattentive processing of frequency. These findings are discussed in view of recent theories of dyslexia pointing to deficits in processing the temporal structure of speech. They clearly encourage the use of active music training for the rehabilitation of children with language impairments.
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- Aline Frey
- ESPE de l'académie de Créteil, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Laboratoire CHArt, 94380 Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France.
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- Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS et Aix Marseille Université, 13640 Aix-en-Provence, France.
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, IDIBELL, University of Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS et Aix-Marseille Université, 13331 Marseille, France.
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS et Aix-Marseille Université, 13331 Marseille, France.
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- Département de Neurologie Pédiatrique, CHU Timone, 13005 Marseille, France.
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS et Aix-Marseille Université, 13331 Marseille, France.
- Cuban Neuroscience Center, La Havane 4850, Cuba.
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Harding EE, Sammler D, Henry MJ, Large EW, Kotz SA. Cortical tracking of rhythm in music and speech. Neuroimage 2018; 185:96-101. [PMID: 30336253 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Revised: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Neural activity phase-locks to rhythm in both music and speech. However, the literature currently lacks a direct test of whether cortical tracking of comparable rhythmic structure is comparable across domains. Moreover, although musical training improves multiple aspects of music and speech perception, the relationship between musical training and cortical tracking of rhythm has not been compared directly across domains. We recorded the electroencephalograms (EEG) from 28 participants (14 female) with a range of musical training who listened to melodies and sentences with identical rhythmic structure. We compared cerebral-acoustic coherence (CACoh) between the EEG signal and single-trial stimulus envelopes (as measure of cortical entrainment) across domains and correlated years of musical training with CACoh. We hypothesized that neural activity would be comparably phase-locked across domains, and that the amount of musical training would be associated with increasingly strong phase locking in both domains. We found that participants with only a few years of musical training had a comparable cortical response to music and speech rhythm, partially supporting the hypothesis. However, the cortical response to music rhythm increased with years of musical training while the response to speech rhythm did not, leading to an overall greater cortical response to music rhythm across all participants. We suggest that task demands shaped the asymmetric cortical tracking across domains.
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- Eleanor E Harding
- Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Otto Hahn Group "Neural Bases of Intonation in Speech and Music", Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group "Auditory Cognition", Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Brain and Mind Institute, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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Behavioral and electrophysiological investigation of speech perception deficits in silence, noise and envelope conditions in developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia 2018; 130:3-12. [PMID: 30075216 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Revised: 07/15/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The present study investigated whether children with developmental dyslexia showed specific deficits in the perception of three phonetic features (voicing, place, and manner of articulation) in optimal (silence) and degraded listening conditions (envelope-coded speech versus noise), using both standard behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Performance of children with dyslexia was compared to that of younger typically developing children who were matched in terms of reading age. Results showed no significant group differences in response accuracy except for the reception of place-of-articulation in noise. However, dyslexic children responded more slowly than typically developing children across all conditions with larger deficits in noise than in envelope than in silence. At the neural level, dyslexic children exhibited reduced N1 components in silence and the reduction of N1 amplitude was more pronounced for voicing than for the other phonetic features. In the envelope condition, the N1 was localized over the right hemisphere and it was larger for typically developing readers than for dyslexic children. Finally, in stationary noise, the N1 to place of articulation was clearly delayed in children with dyslexia, which suggests a temporal de-organization in the most adverse listening conditions. The results clearly show abnormal neural processing to speech sounds in all conditions. They are discussed in the context of recent theories on perceptual noise exclusion, neural noise and temporal sampling.
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Dhatri SD, Gnanateja GN, Kumar UA, Maruthy S. Gender-bias in the sensory representation of infant cry. Neurosci Lett 2018; 678:138-143. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Tichko P, Skoe E. Musical Experience, Sensorineural Auditory Processing, and Reading Subskills in Adults. Brain Sci 2018; 8:E77. [PMID: 29702572 PMCID: PMC5977068 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci8050077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Developmental research suggests that sensorineural auditory processing, reading subskills (e.g., phonological awareness and rapid naming), and musical experience are related during early periods of reading development. Interestingly, recent work suggests that these relations may extend into adulthood, with indices of sensorineural auditory processing relating to global reading ability. However, it is largely unknown whether sensorineural auditory processing relates to specific reading subskills, such as phonological awareness and rapid naming, as well as musical experience in mature readers. To address this question, we recorded electrophysiological responses to a repeating click (auditory stimulus) in a sample of adult readers. We then investigated relations between electrophysiological responses to sound, reading subskills, and musical experience in this same set of adult readers. Analyses suggest that sensorineural auditory processing, reading subskills, and musical experience are related in adulthood, with faster neural conduction times and greater musical experience associated with stronger rapid-naming skills. These results are similar to the developmental findings that suggest reading subskills are related to sensorineural auditory processing and musical experience in children.
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- Parker Tichko
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Developmental Psychology Division, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Developmental Psychology Division, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
- Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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Dawson C, Tervaniemi M, Aalto D. Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0190793. [PMID: 29300756 PMCID: PMC5754139 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Both musical training and native language have been shown to have experience-based plastic effects on auditory processing. However, the combined effects within individuals are unclear. Recent research suggests that musical training and tone language speaking are not clearly additive in their effects on processing of auditory features and that there may be a disconnect between perceptual and neural signatures of auditory feature processing. The literature has only recently begun to investigate the effects of musical expertise on basic auditory processing for different linguistic groups. This work provides a profile of primary auditory feature discrimination for Mandarin speaking musicians and nonmusicians. The musicians showed enhanced perceptual discrimination for both frequency and duration as well as enhanced duration discrimination in a multifeature discrimination task, compared to nonmusicians. However, there were no differences between the groups in duration processing of nonspeech sounds at a subcortical level or in subcortical frequency representation of a nonnative tone contour, for fo or for the first or second formant region. The results indicate that musical expertise provides a cognitive, but not subcortical, advantage in a population of Mandarin speakers.
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- Caitlin Dawson
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- CICERO Learning Network, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Institute for Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine, Misericordia Community Hospital, Edmonton, Canada
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Slater J, Kraus N, Carr KW, Tierney A, Azem A, Ashley R. Speech-in-noise perception is linked to rhythm production skills in adult percussionists and non-musicians. LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE 2017; 33:710-717. [PMID: 31475217 PMCID: PMC6716596 DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1411960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Speech rhythms guide perception, especially in noise. We recently revealed that percussionists outperform non-musicians in speech-in-noise perception, with better speech-in-noise perception associated with better rhythm discrimination across a range of rhythmic expertise. Here, we consider rhythm production skills, specifically drumming to a beat (metronome or music) and to sequences (metrical or jittered patterns), as well as speech-in-noise perception in adult percussionists and non-musicians. Given the absence of a regular beat in speech, we hypothesise that processing of sequences is more important for speech-in-noise perception than the ability to entrain to a regular beat. Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that the sequence-based drumming measures predict speech-in-noise perception, above and beyond hearing thresholds and IQ, whereas the beat-based measures do not. Outcomes suggest temporal patterns may help disambiguate speech under degraded listening conditions, extending theoretical considerations about speech rhythm to the everyday challenge of listening in noise.
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- Jessica Slater
- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu
- Department of Communication Sciences
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu
- Department of Communication Sciences
- Institute for Neuroscience
- Department of Neurobiology
- Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu
- Department of Communication Sciences
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu
- Department of Communication Sciences
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu
- Department of Communication Sciences
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- School of Music, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,
USA
- Program of Cognitive Science, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL, USA
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Meha-Bettison K, Sharma M, Ibrahim RK, Mandikal Vasuki PR. Enhanced speech perception in noise and cortical auditory evoked potentials in professional musicians. Int J Audiol 2017; 57:40-52. [DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1380850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Kiriana Meha-Bettison
- Australian Hearing, The Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
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- Department of Linguistics, The Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
- The HEARing CRC, Audiology, Hearing and Speech Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, and
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- Department of Linguistics, The Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
- The HEARing CRC, Audiology, Hearing and Speech Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, and
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- Department of Linguistics, The Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
- Audiology Research, Starkey Hearing Research Centre, Berkeley, USA
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Music training enhances the automatic neural processing of foreign speech sounds. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12631. [PMID: 28974695 PMCID: PMC5626754 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12575-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Growing evidence shows that music and language experience affect the neural processing of speech sounds throughout the auditory system. Recent work mainly focused on the benefits induced by musical practice on the processing of native language or tonal foreign language, which rely on pitch processing. The aim of the present study was to take this research a step further by investigating the effect of music training on processing English sounds by foreign listeners. We recorded subcortical electrophysiological responses to an English syllable in three groups of participants: native speakers, non-native nonmusicians, and non-native musicians. Native speakers had enhanced neural processing of the formant frequencies of speech, compared to non-native nonmusicians, suggesting that automatic encoding of these relevant speech cues are sensitive to language experience. Most strikingly, in non-native musicians, neural responses to the formant frequencies did not differ from those of native speakers, suggesting that musical training may compensate for the lack of language experience by strengthening the neural encoding of important acoustic information. Language and music experience seem to induce a selective sensory gain along acoustic dimensions that are functionally-relevant-here, formant frequencies that are crucial for phoneme discrimination.
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The effects of noise exposure and musical training on suprathreshold auditory processing and speech perception in noise. Hear Res 2017; 353:224-236. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Revised: 05/25/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Zentner M, Strauss H. Assessing musical ability quickly and objectively: development and validation of the Short-PROMS and the Mini-PROMS. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2017; 1400:33-45. [DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Revised: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Marcel Zentner
- Department of Psychology; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck Austria
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- Department of Psychology; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck Austria
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Dittinger E, Chobert J, Ziegler JC, Besson M. Fast Brain Plasticity during Word Learning in Musically-Trained Children. Front Hum Neurosci 2017; 11:233. [PMID: 28553213 PMCID: PMC5427084 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Children learn new words every day and this ability requires auditory perception, phoneme discrimination, attention, associative learning and semantic memory. Based on previous results showing that some of these functions are enhanced by music training, we investigated learning of novel words through picture-word associations in musically-trained and control children (8-12 year-old) to determine whether music training would positively influence word learning. Results showed that musically-trained children outperformed controls in a learning paradigm that included picture-sound matching and semantic associations. Moreover, the differences between unexpected and expected learned words, as reflected by the N200 and N400 effects, were larger in children with music training compared to controls after only 3 min of learning the meaning of novel words. In line with previous results in adults, these findings clearly demonstrate a correlation between music training and better word learning. It is argued that these benefits reflect both bottom-up and top-down influences. The present learning paradigm might provide a useful dynamic diagnostic tool to determine which perceptive and cognitive functions are impaired in children with learning difficulties.
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- Eva Dittinger
- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC, UMR 7291), CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversityMarseille, France
- Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL, UMR 7309), CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversityAix-en-Provence, France
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC, UMR 7291), CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversityMarseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (LPC, UMR 7290), CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversityMarseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC, UMR 7291), CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversityMarseille, France
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Effects of enriched auditory experience on infants’ speech perception during the first year of life. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s11125-017-9397-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Slater J, Azem A, Nicol T, Swedenborg B, Kraus N. Variations on the theme of musical expertise: cognitive and sensory processing in percussionists, vocalists and non-musicians. Eur J Neurosci 2017; 45:952-963. [PMID: 28177157 PMCID: PMC5378620 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Revised: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Comparisons of musicians and non-musicians have revealed enhanced cognitive and sensory processing in musicians, with longitudinal studies suggesting these enhancements may be due in part to experience-based plasticity. Here, we investigate the impact of primary instrument on the musician signature of expertise by assessing three groups of young adults: percussionists, vocalists, and non-musician controls. We hypothesize that primary instrument engenders selective enhancements reflecting the most salient acoustic features to that instrument, whereas cognitive functions are enhanced regardless of instrument. Consistent with our hypotheses, percussionists show more precise encoding of the fast-changing acoustic features of speech than non-musicians, whereas vocalists have better frequency discrimination and show stronger encoding of speech harmonics than non-musicians. There were no strong advantages to specialization in sight-reading vs. improvisation. These effects represent subtle nuances to the signature since the musician groups do not differ from each other in these measures. Interestingly, percussionists outperform both non-musicians and vocalists in inhibitory control. Follow-up analyses reveal that within the vocalists and non-musicians, better proficiency on an instrument other than voice is correlated with better inhibitory control. Taken together, these outcomes suggest the more extensive engagement of motor systems during instrumental practice may be an important factor for enhancements in inhibitory control, consistent with evidence for overlapping neural circuitry involved in both motor and cognitive control. These findings contribute to the ongoing refinement of the musician signature of expertise and may help to inform the use of music in training and intervention to strengthen cognitive function.
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- Jessica Slater
- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA
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Speech-in-noise perception in musicians: A review. Hear Res 2017; 352:49-69. [PMID: 28213134 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Revised: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 02/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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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 computational problem. It is also a critical clinical problem that disproportionally affects the elderly, children with language-related learning disorders, and those with hearing loss. Recent evidence that musicians have an advantage on this multifaceted skill has led to the suggestion that musical training might be used to improve or delay the decline of speech-in-noise (SIN) function. However, enhancements have not been universally reported, nor have the relative contributions of different bottom-up versus top-down processes, and their relation to preexisting factors been disentangled. This information that would be helpful to establish whether there is a real effect of experience, what exactly is its nature, and how future training-based interventions might target the most relevant components of cognitive processes. These questions are complicated by important differences in study design and uneven coverage of neuroimaging modality. In this review, we aim to systematize recent results from studies that have specifically looked at musician-related differences in SIN by their study design properties, to summarize the findings, and to identify knowledge gaps for future work.
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Musicians' edge: A comparison of auditory processing, cognitive abilities and statistical learning. Hear Res 2016; 342:112-123. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2016.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Kumar P, Anil SP, Grover V, Sanju HK, Sinha S. Cortical and subcortical processing of short duration speech stimuli in trained rock musicians: a pilot study. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2016; 274:1153-1160. [PMID: 27565157 DOI: 10.1007/s00405-016-4285-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Most trained musicians are actively involved in rigorous practice from several years to achieve a high level of proficiency. Therefore, musicians are best group to research changes or modification in brain structures and functions across several information processing systems. This study aimed to investigate cortical and subcortical processing of short duration speech stimuli in trained rock musicians and non-musicians. Two groups of participant (experimental and control groups) in the age range of 18-25 years were selected for the study. Experimental group includes 15 rock musicians who had minimum professional training of 5 years of rock music, and each member had to be a regular performer of rock music for at least 15 h a week. Further age-matched 15 participants who were not having any formal training of any music served as non-musicians, in the control group. The speech-evoked ABR (S-ABR) and speech-evoked ALLR (S-LLR) with short duration speech 'synthetic /da/' was elicited in both groups. Different measures were analyzed for S-ABR and S-LLR. For S-ABR, MANOVA revealed significant main effect of groups on latencies of wave V, wave A, and amplitude of wave V/A slope. Similarly, Kruskal-Wallis test showed significantly higher F 0 amplitude in rock musicians compared with non-musicians. For S-LLR, MANOVA showed statistically significant differences observed for latencies of wave P2 and N2 and amplitude measures of P2-N2 amplitude. This study indicated better neural processing of short duration speech stimuli at subcortical as well as cortical level among rock musicians when compared with non-musicians.
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- Prawin Kumar
- All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India
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- All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India
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- All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India
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Skilled musicians are not subject to the McGurk effect. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30423. [PMID: 27453363 PMCID: PMC4958963 DOI: 10.1038/srep30423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The McGurk effect is a compelling illusion in which humans auditorily perceive mismatched audiovisual speech as a completely different syllable. In this study evidences are provided that professional musicians are not subject to this illusion, possibly because of their finer auditory or attentional abilities. 80 healthy age-matched graduate students volunteered to the study. 40 were musicians of Brescia Luca Marenzio Conservatory of Music with at least 8–13 years of musical academic studies. /la/, /da/, /ta/, /ga/, /ka/, /na/, /ba/, /pa/ phonemes were presented to participants in audiovisual congruent and incongruent conditions, or in unimodal (only visual or only auditory) conditions while engaged in syllable recognition tasks. Overall musicians showed no significant McGurk effect for any of the phonemes. Controls showed a marked McGurk effect for several phonemes (including alveolar-nasal, velar-occlusive and bilabial ones). The results indicate that the early and intensive musical training might affect the way the auditory cortex process phonetic information.
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Sanju HK, Kumar P. Enhanced auditory evoked potentials in musicians: A review of recent findings. J Otol 2016; 11:63-72. [PMID: 29937812 PMCID: PMC6002589 DOI: 10.1016/j.joto.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Auditory evoked potentials serve as an objective mode for assessment to check the functioning of the auditory system and neuroplasticity. Literature has reported enhanced electrophysiological responses in musicians, which shows neuroplasticity in musicians. Various databases including PubMed, Google, Google Scholar and Medline were searched for references related to auditory evoked potentials in musicians from 1994 till date. Different auditory evoked potentials in musicians have been summarized in the present article. The findings of various studies may support as evidences for music-induced neuroplasticity which can be used for the treatment of various clinical disorders. The search results showed enhanced auditory evoked potentials in musicians compared to non-musicians from brainstem to cortical levels. Also, the present review showed enhanced attentive and pre-attentive skills in musicians compared to non-musicians.
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- Department of Audiology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, Karnataka, India
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Donai JJ, Jennings MB. Gaps-in-noise detection and gender identification from noise-vocoded vowel segments: Comparing performance of active musicians to non-musicians. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2016; 139:EL128. [PMID: 27250197 DOI: 10.1121/1.4947070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This study evaluated performance on a gender identification and temporal resolution task among active musicians and age-matched non-musicians. Brief duration (i.e., 50 and 100 ms) vowel segments produced by four adult male and four adult female speakers were spectro-temporally degraded using various parameters and presented to both groups for gender identification. Gap detection thresholds were measured using the gaps-in-noise (GIN) test. Contrary to the stated hypothesis, a significant difference in gender identification was not observed between the musician and non-musician listeners. A significant difference, however, was observed on the temporal resolution task, with the musician group achieving approximately 2 ms shorter gap detection thresholds on the GIN test compared to the non-musician counterparts. These results provide evidence supporting the potential benefits of musical training on temporal processing abilities, which have implications for the processing of speech in degraded listening environments and the enhanced processing of the fine-grained temporal aspects of the speech signal. The results also support the GIN test as an instrument sensitive to temporal processing differences among active musicians and non-musicians.
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- Jeremy J Donai
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA ,
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA ,
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Coffey EBJ, Colagrosso EMG, Lehmann A, Schönwiesner M, Zatorre RJ. Individual Differences in the Frequency-Following Response: Relation to Pitch Perception. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0152374. [PMID: 27015271 PMCID: PMC4807774 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The scalp-recorded frequency-following response (FFR) is a measure of the auditory nervous system’s representation of periodic sound, and may serve as a marker of training-related enhancements, behavioural deficits, and clinical conditions. However, FFRs of healthy normal subjects show considerable variability that remains unexplained. We investigated whether the FFR representation of the frequency content of a complex tone is related to the perception of the pitch of the fundamental frequency. The strength of the fundamental frequency in the FFR of 39 people with normal hearing was assessed when they listened to complex tones that either included or lacked energy at the fundamental frequency. We found that the strength of the fundamental representation of the missing fundamental tone complex correlated significantly with people's general tendency to perceive the pitch of the tone as either matching the frequency of the spectral components that were present, or that of the missing fundamental. Although at a group level the fundamental representation in the FFR did not appear to be affected by the presence or absence of energy at the same frequency in the stimulus, the two conditions were statistically distinguishable for some subjects individually, indicating that the neural representation is not linearly dependent on the stimulus content. In a second experiment using a within-subjects paradigm, we showed that subjects can learn to reversibly select between either fundamental or spectral perception, and that this is accompanied both by changes to the fundamental representation in the FFR and to cortical-based gamma activity. These results suggest that both fundamental and spectral representations coexist, and are available for later auditory processing stages, the requirements of which may also influence their relative strength and thus modulate FFR variability. The data also highlight voluntary mode perception as a new paradigm with which to study top-down vs bottom-up mechanisms that support the emerging view of the FFR as the outcome of integrated processing in the entire auditory system.
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- Emily B. J. Coffey
- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal, Canada
- Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, Canada
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- Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal, Canada
- Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal, Canada
- Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Montreal, Canada
- Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, Canada
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Every day we communicate using complex linguistic and musical systems, yet these modern systems are the product of a much more ancient relationship with sound. When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create and the movements that create them. From the natural rhythms of speech, to the precise timing characteristics of a consonant, these patterns guide our daily communication. By examining the principles of information processing that are common to speech and music, we peel back the layers to reveal the biological foundations of human communication through sound. Further, we consider how the brain's response to sound is shaped by experience, such as musical expertise, and implications for the treatment of communication disorders.
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- Nina Kraus
- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Departments of
- Communication Sciences,
- Neurobiology and Physiology,
- Otolaryngology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208;
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Departments of
- Communication Sciences,
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Bianchi F, Santurette S, Wendt D, Dau T. Pitch Discrimination in Musicians and Non-Musicians: Effects of Harmonic Resolvability and Processing Effort. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2015; 17:69-79. [PMID: 26637239 PMCID: PMC4722018 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-015-0548-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 11/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Musicians typically show enhanced pitch discrimination abilities compared to non-musicians. The present study investigated this perceptual enhancement behaviorally and objectively for resolved and unresolved complex tones to clarify whether the enhanced performance in musicians can be ascribed to increased peripheral frequency selectivity and/or to a different processing effort in performing the task. In a first experiment, pitch discrimination thresholds were obtained for harmonic complex tones with fundamental frequencies (F0s) between 100 and 500 Hz, filtered in either a low- or a high-frequency region, leading to variations in the resolvability of audible harmonics. The results showed that pitch discrimination performance in musicians was enhanced for resolved and unresolved complexes to a similar extent. Additionally, the harmonics became resolved at a similar F0 in musicians and non-musicians, suggesting similar peripheral frequency selectivity in the two groups of listeners. In a follow-up experiment, listeners' pupil dilations were measured as an indicator of the required effort in performing the same pitch discrimination task for conditions of varying resolvability and task difficulty. Pupillometry responses indicated a lower processing effort in the musicians versus the non-musicians, although the processing demand imposed by the pitch discrimination task was individually adjusted according to the behavioral thresholds. Overall, these findings indicate that the enhanced pitch discrimination abilities in musicians are unlikely to be related to higher peripheral frequency selectivity and may suggest an enhanced pitch representation at more central stages of the auditory system in musically trained listeners.
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- Federica Bianchi
- Hearing Systems group, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads Building 352, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Hearing Systems group, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads Building 352, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems group, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads Building 352, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems group, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads Building 352, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Lehmann A, Skoe E. Robust Encoding in the Human Auditory Brainstem: Use It or Lose It? Front Neurosci 2015; 9:451. [PMID: 26648840 PMCID: PMC4664693 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Alexandre Lehmann
- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada ; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Cognitive Science Program Affiliate, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA
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Lo CY, McMahon CM, Looi V, Thompson WF. Melodic Contour Training and Its Effect on Speech in Noise, Consonant Discrimination, and Prosody Perception for Cochlear Implant Recipients. Behav Neurol 2015; 2015:352869. [PMID: 26494944 PMCID: PMC4606449 DOI: 10.1155/2015/352869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2015] [Revised: 07/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Cochlear implant (CI) recipients generally have good perception of speech in quiet environments but difficulty perceiving speech in noisy conditions, reduced sensitivity to speech prosody, and difficulty appreciating music. Auditory training has been proposed as a method of improving speech perception for CI recipients, and recent efforts have focussed on the potential benefits of music-based training. This study evaluated two melodic contour training programs and their relative efficacy as measured on a number of speech perception tasks. These melodic contours were simple 5-note sequences formed into 9 contour patterns, such as "rising" or "rising-falling." One training program controlled difficulty by manipulating interval sizes, the other by note durations. Sixteen adult CI recipients (aged 26-86 years) and twelve normal hearing (NH) adult listeners (aged 21-42 years) were tested on a speech perception battery at baseline and then after 6 weeks of melodic contour training. Results indicated that there were some benefits for speech perception tasks for CI recipients after melodic contour training. Specifically, consonant perception in quiet and question/statement prosody was improved. In comparison, NH listeners performed at ceiling for these tasks. There was no significant difference between the posttraining results for either training program, suggesting that both conferred benefits for training CI recipients to better perceive speech.
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- Chi Yhun Lo
- Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
- HEARing Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
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- Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
- HEARing Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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- SCIC Cochlear Implant Program-An RIDBC Service, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
- Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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Flaugnacco E, Lopez L, Terribili C, Montico M, Zoia S, Schön D. Music Training Increases Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills in Developmental Dyslexia: A Randomized Control Trial. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0138715. [PMID: 26407242 PMCID: PMC4583182 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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There is some evidence for a role of music training in boosting phonological awareness, word segmentation, working memory, as well as reading abilities in children with typical development. Poor performance in tasks requiring temporal processing, rhythm perception and sensorimotor synchronization seems to be a crucial factor underlying dyslexia in children. Interestingly, children with dyslexia show deficits in temporal processing, both in language and in music. Within this framework, we test the hypothesis that music training, by improving temporal processing and rhythm abilities, improves phonological awareness and reading skills in children with dyslexia. The study is a prospective, multicenter, open randomized controlled trial, consisting of test, rehabilitation and re-test (ID NCT02316873). After rehabilitation, the music group (N = 24) performed better than the control group (N = 22) in tasks assessing rhythmic abilities, phonological awareness and reading skills. This is the first randomized control trial testing the effect of music training in enhancing phonological and reading abilities in children with dyslexia. The findings show that music training can modify reading and phonological abilities even when these skills are severely impaired. Through the enhancement of temporal processing and rhythmic skills, music might become an important tool in both remediation and early intervention programs.
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- Elena Flaugnacco
- Child Neurology and Psychiatry Ward, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS ‘‘Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- Center for the Child Health - Onlus, Trieste, Italy
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- Rehabilitation Center for Developmental Disorders, Villaggio Eugenio Litta, Grottaferrata, Rome, Italy
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- Rehabilitation Center for Developmental Disorders, Villaggio Eugenio Litta, Grottaferrata, Rome, Italy
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS ‘‘Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
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- Child Neurology and Psychiatry Ward, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS ‘‘Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
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- Aix-Marseille Université, INS, Marseille, France
- INSERM, U1106, Marseille, France
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Varnet L, Wang T, Peter C, Meunier F, Hoen M. How musical expertise shapes speech perception: evidence from auditory classification images. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14489. [PMID: 26399909 PMCID: PMC4585866 DOI: 10.1038/srep14489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
It is now well established that extensive musical training percolates to higher levels of cognition, such as speech processing. However, the lack of a precise technique to investigate the specific listening strategy involved in speech comprehension has made it difficult to determine how musicians' higher performance in non-speech tasks contributes to their enhanced speech comprehension. The recently developed Auditory Classification Image approach reveals the precise time-frequency regions used by participants when performing phonemic categorizations in noise. Here we used this technique on 19 non-musicians and 19 professional musicians. We found that both groups used very similar listening strategies, but the musicians relied more heavily on the two main acoustic cues, at the first formant onset and at the onsets of the second and third formants onsets. Additionally, they responded more consistently to stimuli. These observations provide a direct visualization of auditory plasticity resulting from extensive musical training and shed light on the level of functional transfer between auditory processing and speech perception.
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- Léo Varnet
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Laboratoire sur le Langage le Cerveau et la Cognition, CNRS UMR 5304, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Laboratoire sur le Langage le Cerveau et la Cognition, CNRS UMR 5304, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire sur le Langage le Cerveau et la Cognition, CNRS UMR 5304, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Language Processing (ALP) research group, Lyon, France.,Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France.,Oticon Medical - 2720 Chemin Saint Bernard, 06220 Vallauris, France
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Lehmann A, Paquette S. Cross-domain processing of musical and vocal emotions in cochlear implant users. Front Neurosci 2015; 9:343. [PMID: 26441512 PMCID: PMC4585154 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Accepted: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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- Alexandre Lehmann
- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada ; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music Montreal, QC, Canada ; Department of Psychology, University of Montreal Montreal, QC, Canada
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- International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music Montreal, QC, Canada ; Department of Psychology, University of Montreal Montreal, QC, Canada
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Slater J, Skoe E, Strait DL, O’Connell S, Thompson E, Kraus N. Music training improves speech-in-noise perception: Longitudinal evidence from a community-based music program. Behav Brain Res 2015; 291:244-252. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Revised: 05/09/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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