Domain-specific hearing-in-noise performance is associated with absolute pitch proficiency.

ABSTRACT: Recent evidence suggests that musicians may have an advantage over non-musicians in perceiving speech against noisy backgrounds. Previously, musicians have been compared as a homogenous group, despite demonstrated heterogeneity, which may contribute to discrepancies between studies. Here, we investigated whether "quasi"-absolute pitch (AP) proficiency, viewed as a general trait that varies across a spectrum, accounts for the musician advantage in hearing-in-noise (HIN) performance, irrespective of whether the streams are speech or musical sounds. A cohort of 12 non-musicians and 42 trained musicians stratified into high, medium, or low AP proficiency identified speech or melody targets masked in noise (speech-shaped, multi-talker, and multi-music) under four signal-to-noise ratios (0, - 3,

SUBMITTER: Hsieh IH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9521875 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature