Musical experience partially counteracts temporal speech processing deficits in putative mild cognitive impairment.

ABSTRACT: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) commonly results in more rapid cognitive and behavioral declines than typical aging. Individuals with MCI can exhibit impaired receptive speech abilities that may reflect neurophysiological changes in auditory-sensory processing prior to usual cognitive deficits. Benefits from current interventions targeting communication difficulties in MCI are limited. Yet, neuroplasticity associated with musical experience has been implicated in improving neural representations of speech and offsetting age-related declines in perception. Here, we asked whether these experience-dependent effects of musical experience might extend to aberrant aging and offer some degree of cognitive protection against MCI. During a vowel categorization task, we recorded single-channel elect

SUBMITTER: Price CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588638 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature