Musical training, individual differences and the cocktail party problem

Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech

(2015) Dana Boebinger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Music listening engages specific cortical regions within the temporal lobes: Differences between musicians and non-musicians

(2014) Arafat Angulo-Perkins et al.   CORTEX

Influence of Musical Training on Understanding Voiced and Whispered Speech in Noise

(2014) Dorea R. Ruggles et al.   PLoS One

Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians

(2014) Jennifer Zuk et al.   PLoS One

Can nonlinguistic musical training change the way the brain processes speech? The expanded OPERA hypothesis

(2013) Aniruddh D. Patel   HEARING RESEARCH

Adaptive Temporal Encoding Leads to a Background-Insensitive Cortical Representation of Speech

(2013) N. Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mechanisms Underlying Selective Neuronal Tracking of Attended Speech at a “Cocktail Party”

(2013) Elana M. Zion Golumbic et al.   NEURON

Predispositions and Plasticity in Music and Speech Learning: Neural Correlates and Implications

(2013) R. J. Zatorre   SCIENCE

Independent impacts of age and hearing loss on spatial release in a complex auditory environment

(2013) Frederick J. Gallun et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Why Middle-Aged Listeners Have Trouble Hearing in Everyday Settings

(2012) Dorea Ruggles et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Effortful Listening: The Processing of Degraded Speech Depends Critically on Attention

(2012) C. J. Wild et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sensory-Cognitive Interaction in the Neural Encoding of Speech in Noise: A Review

(2011) Samira Anderson et al.   Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication

(2011) D. Ruggles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Decoding Temporal Structure in Music and Speech Relies on Shared Brain Resources but Elicits Different Fine-Scale Spatial Patterns

(2010) Daniel A. Abrams et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neuroarchitecture of verbal and tonal working memory in nonmusicians and musicians

(2010) Katrin Schulze et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Cortical Representation of Natural Complex Sounds: Effects of Acoustic Features and Auditory Object Category

(2010) A. M. Leaver et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Stimulus factors influencing spatial release from speech-on-speech masking

(2010) Gerald Kidd et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Musician Enhancement for Speech-In-Noise

(2009) Alexandra Parbery-Clark et al.   EAR AND HEARING

Musical experience shapes top-down auditory mechanisms: Evidence from masking and auditory attention performance

(2009) Dana L. Strait et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

Speech recognition by bilateral cochlear implant users in a cocktail-party setting

(2009) Philipos C. Loizou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

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

(2008) Sylvain Moreno et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Concurrent Sound Segregation Is Enhanced in Musicians

(2008) Benjamin Rich Zendel et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

The effects of hearing loss and age on the benefit of spatial separation between multiple talkers in reverberant rooms

(2008) Nicole Marrone et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Speech detection in spatial and nonspatial speech maskers

(2008) Uma Balakrishnan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Object-based auditory and visual attention

(2008) Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES