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Musical training sharpens and bonds ears and tongue to hear speech better

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Du, Yi, Zatorre, Robert J.·2017·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: Musical training is a good thing, but does it benefit us in hearing speech in noise as has been suggested? If so, what is the brain mechanism behind this? Here we provide evidence of musician advantage on speech in noise perception at not only the behavioral level but also the level of neural representations of phonemes and functional connectivity. Results implicate better speech encoding in both auditory and speech motor regions, as well as stronger cross-modal auditory–motor integration in musicians than nonmusicians when processing speech, especially in noisy conditions. The idea that musical training improves speech in noise perception by enhancing auditory–motor integration is intriguing, with applications in alleviating speech perception difficulties in aging populations and hearing disorders.

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Authors
Du, Y., & Zatorre, R. J.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2017-12-04
Volume
114
Issue
51
Pages
13579-13584
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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W2774929676
Cited by
165
References
7
FWCI
5.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green

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Du, Y., & Zatorre, R. J. (2017). Musical training sharpens and bonds ears and tongue to hear speech better. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712223114

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