The present paper provides an overview of research concerning both acute and chronic
effects of exposure to noise on children's cognitive performance. Experimental studies …

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 …

Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties in learning to read and there is some evidence that
action video games (AVG), without any direct phonological or orthographic stimulation …

To the extent that selective attention skills are relevant for academic foundations and
amenable to training, they represent an important focus for the field of education. Here …

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 …

Objective: To investigate the effect of musical training on speech-in-noise (SIN)
performance, a complex task requiring the integration of working memory and stream …

Developmental disorders of language include developmental language disorder, dyslexia,
and motor-speech disorders such as articulation disorder and stuttering. These disorders …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

Previous research indicates that children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds show
deficits in aspects of attention, including a reduced ability to filter irrelevant information and …

Children are more impaired than adults by unfavorable listening conditions such as
reverberation and noise. Nevertheless, the acoustical conditions in classrooms often do not …