Speech separation is the task of separating target speech from background interference.
Traditionally, speech separation is studied as a signal processing problem. A more recent …

The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Power of Music a research synthesis of the impact of actively
making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young …

Several studies have suggested that intensive musical training enhances children's
linguistic skills. Such training, however, is not available to all children. We studied in a …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior
and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been …

The human soundscape is characterized by complex sounds with rich harmonic structures,
dynamic amplitude modulations, and rapid spectrotemporal fluctuations. This complexity is …

Published studies assessing the association between cognitive performance and speech-in-
noise (SiN) perception examine different aspects of each, test different listeners, and often …

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

After a brief historical perspective of the relationship between language and music, we
review our work on transfer of training from music to speech that aimed at testing the general …