title: Cortical and subcortical processing of short duration speech stimuli in trained rock musicians: a pilot study.
abstract: Most trained musicians are actively involved in rigorous practice from several years to achieve a high level of proficiency. Therefore, musicians are best group to research changes or modification in brain structures and functions across several information processing systems. This study aimed to investigate cortical and subcortical processing of short duration speech stimuli in trained rock musicians and non-musicians. Two groups of participant (experimental and control groups) in the age range of 18-25 years were selected for the study. Experimental group includes 15 rock musicians who had minimum professional training of 5 years of rock music, and each member had to be a regular performer of rock music for at least 15 h a week. Further age-matched 15 participants who were not having any formal training of any music served as non-musicians, in the control group. The speech-evoked ABR (S-ABR) and speech-evoked ALLR (S-LLR) with short duration speech 'synthetic /da/' was elicited in both groups. Different measures were analyzed for S-ABR and S-LLR. For S-ABR, MANOVA revealed significant main effect of groups on latencies of wave V, wave A, and amplitude of wave V/A slope. Similarly, Kruskal-Wallis test showed significantly higher F0amplitude in rock musicians compared with non-musicians. For S-LLR, MANOVA showed statistically significant differences observed for latencies of wave P2 and N2 and amplitude measures of P2-N2 amplitude. This study indicated better neural processing of short duration speech stimuli at subcortical as well as cortical level among rock musicians when compared with non-musicians.
authors: All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India.
authors: Prawin
authors: P
authors: Kumar
authors: All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India.
authors: Sam Publius
authors: SP
authors: Anil
authors: All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India.
authors: Vibhu
authors: V
authors: Grover
authors: All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India. himanshusanjuaiish@gmail.com.
authors: Himanshu Kumar
authors: HK
authors: Sanju
authors: Sri Aurbindo Institute of Medical Science, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors: Sachchidanand
authors: S
authors: Sinha
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Auditory-evoked potential; Neuronal plasticity; Rock musicians; Speech processing