Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) or presbycusis, as the third leading cause of chronic
disability in older adults, has been shown to be associated with predisposing cognitive …

Aging is associated with alterations in cognitive processing and brain neurophysiology.
Whereas the primary symptom of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is memory …

Children's engagement in music practice is associated with enhancements in literacy-
related language skills, as demonstrated by multiple reports of correlation across these two …

Frequency-following responses (FFRs) are neurophonic potentials that provide a window
into the encoding of complex sounds (eg, speech/music), auditory disorders, and …

Building on her earlier work,'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of
Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and …

Music has the capacity to engage auditory, cognitive, motor, and emotional functions across
cortical and subcortical brain regions and is relatively preserved in aging and dementia …

The ability to understand speech in the presence of competing sound sources is an
important neuroscience question in terms of how the nervous system solves this …

Musical training is associated with a myriad of neuroplastic changes in the brain, including
more robust and efficient neural processing of clean and degraded speech signals at …

Musicianship can mitigate age-related declines in audiovisual speech-in-noise perception.
We tested whether this benefit originates from functional preservation or functional …

Aging is accompanied by cognitive decline, although recent research indicates that the rate
of decline depends on multiple lifestyle factors. One of such factors is musical practice, an …