title: Musician advantage for speech-on-speech perception.
abstract: Evidence for transfer of musical training to better perception of speech in noise has been mixed. Unlike speech-in-noise, speech-on-speech perception utilizes many of the skills that musical training improves, such as better pitch perception and stream segregation, as well as use of higher-level auditory cognitive functions, such as attention. Indeed, despite the few non-musicians who performed as well as musicians, on a group level, there was a strong musician benefit for speech perception in a speech masker. This benefit does not seem to result from better voice processing and could instead be related to better stream segregation or enhanced cognitive functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands d.baskent@umcg.nl, etienne.gaudrain@cnrs.fr.
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Başkent
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands d.baskent@umcg.nl, etienne.gaudrain@cnrs.fr.
authors.forename: Etienne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gaudrain
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D003071:Cognition; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010898:Pitch Perception; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D055815:Young Adult