Musicians Show Improved Speech Segregation in Competitive, Multi-Talker Cocktail Party Scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Studies suggest that long-term music experience enhances the brain's ability to segregate speech from noise. Musicians' "speech-in-noise (SIN) benefit" is based largely on perception from simple figure-ground tasks rather than competitive, multi-talker scenarios that offer realistic spatial cues for segregation and engage binaural processing. We aimed to investigate whether musicians show perceptual advantages in cocktail party speech segregation in a competitive, multi-talker environment. We used the coordinate response measure (CRM) paradigm to measure speech recognition and localization performance in musicians vs. non-musicians in a simulated 3D cocktail party environment conducted in an anechoic chamber. Speech was delivered through a 16-channel speaker array distributed around the ho

SUBMITTER: Bidelman GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7461890 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature