Enhanced voice recognition in musicians.

ABSTRACT: Musicians typically have extensive auditory experience and demonstrate better pitch, timbre, and tempo discrimination compared to non-musicians. Musical training is also correlated with earlier and more robust cortical and subcortical responses to linguistic stimuli. We asked whether musical expertise may contribute to other auditory tasks, namely person and object recognition when both auditory and visual cues to identity are available. Musicians and non-musicians learned face-voice and car-horn "identity" pairs. Using a forced choice, old/new paradigm, participants were tested for recognition of the learned stimuli presented among distractor stimuli under three stimulus conditions (auditory only, visual only, and bimodal audiovisual). Compared to non-musicians, musicians were more sensit

SUBMITTER: Sletcher AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12088071 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature