How musical expertise shapes speech perception: evidence from auditory classification images.

ABSTRACT: It is now well established that extensive musical training percolates to higher levels of cognition, such as speech processing. However, the lack of a precise technique to investigate the specific listening strategy involved in speech comprehension has made it difficult to determine how musicians' higher performance in non-speech tasks contributes to their enhanced speech comprehension. The recently developed Auditory Classification Image approach reveals the precise time-frequency regions used by participants when performing phonemic categorizations in noise. Here we used this technique on 19 non-musicians and 19 professional musicians. We found that both groups used very similar listening strategies, but the musicians relied more heavily on the two main acoustic cues, at the first forman

SUBMITTER: Varnet L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4585866 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature