Do Musicians and Non-musicians Differ in Speech-on-Speech Processing?

ABSTRACT: Earlier studies have shown that musically trained individuals may have a benefit in adverse listening situations when compared to non-musicians, especially in speech-on-speech perception. However, the literature provides mostly conflicting results. In the current study, by employing different measures of spoken language processing, we aimed to test whether we could capture potential differences between musicians and non-musicians in speech-on-speech processing. We used an offline measure of speech perception (sentence recall task), which reveals a post-task response, and online measures of real time spoken language processing: gaze-tracking and pupillometry. We used stimuli of comparable complexity across both paradigms and tested the same groups of participants. In the sentence recall tas

SUBMITTER: Kaplan EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7931613 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature