Musician advantage for speech-on-speech perception

Evidence for transfer of musical training to better perception of speech in noise has been mixed. Unlike speech-in-noise, speech-on-speech perception utilizes many of the skills that musical training improves, such as better pitch perception and stream segregation, as well as use of higher-level aud...

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Published in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2016-03, Vol.139 (3), p.EL51-EL56
Main Authors: Başkent, Deniz, Gaudrain, Etienne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation
Adult
Attention
Audiometry, Speech
Cognition
Cues
Female
Humans
Male
Music
Noise - adverse effects
Perceptual Masking
Pitch Perception
Speech Intelligibility
Speech Perception
Young Adult
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Summary:Evidence for transfer of musical training to better perception of speech in noise has been mixed. Unlike speech-in-noise, speech-on-speech perception utilizes many of the skills that musical training improves, such as better pitch perception and stream segregation, as well as use of higher-level auditory cognitive functions, such as attention. Indeed, despite the few non-musicians who performed as well as musicians, on a group level, there was a strong musician benefit for speech perception in a speech masker. This benefit does not seem to result from better voice processing and could instead be related to better stream segregation or enhanced cognitive functions.
ISSN:0001-4966
1520-8524
DOI:10.1121/1.4942628