title: Enhanced auditory temporal gap detection in listeners with musical training.
abstract: Many features of auditory perception are positively altered in musicians. Traditionally auditory mechanisms in musicians are investigated using the Western-classical musician model. The objective of the present study was to adopt an alternative model-Indian-classical music-to further investigate auditory temporal processing in musicians. This study presents that musicians have significantly lower across-channel gap detection thresholds compared to nonmusicians. Use of the South Indian musician model provides an increased external validity for the prediction, from studies on Western-classical musicians, that auditory temporal coding is enhanced in musicians.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 skmishra@butler.edu.
authors.forename: Srikanta K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.affiliation: Department of Audiology & Speech Language Pathology, SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, 603 203, India prmanas@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Manas R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Panda
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 cherbert@butler.edu.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herbert
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult