The OPERA hypothesis: assumptions and clarifications

Musical Experience and the Aging Auditory System: Implications for Cognitive Abilities and Hearing Speech in Noise

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Music training for the development of auditory skills

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Musical Experience Limits the Degradative Effects of Background Noise on the Neural Processing of Sound

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Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity

(2008) Sylvain Moreno et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system

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Plasticity in the Adult Human Auditory Brainstem following Short-term Linguistic Training

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Cortical Plasticity Induced by Short-Term Unimodal and Multimodal Musical Training

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