Inherent auditory skills rather than formal music training shape the neural encoding of speech.

ABSTRACT: Musical training is associated with a myriad of neuroplastic changes in the brain, including more robust and efficient neural processing of clean and degraded speech signals at brainstem and cortical levels. These assumptions stem largely from cross-sectional studies between musicians and nonmusicians which cannot address whether training itself is sufficient to induce physiological changes or whether preexisting superiority in auditory function before training predisposes individuals to pursue musical interests and appear to have similar neuroplastic benefits as musicians. Here, we recorded neuroelectric brain activity to clear and noise-degraded speech sounds in individuals without formal music training but who differed in their receptive musical perceptual abilities as assessed objectiv

SUBMITTER: Mankel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6304957 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature