Background:Musical perception requires a host of skills.Instrumental musicians place greater emphasis on motor coordination,whereas vocal musicians rehearse vocal sounds.The study explored the differential advantages ...Background:Musical perception requires a host of skills.Instrumental musicians place greater emphasis on motor coordination,whereas vocal musicians rehearse vocal sounds.The study explored the differential advantages of musical background on binaural integration and interaction in musicians(instrumentalists,vocalists)and compared them with age-matched non-musicians.Methods:Eight six participants aged 20e40 y with normal hearing sensitivity were subjected to binaural tests using a standard group comparison research design.The participants were segregated into three groups e Group 1 included instrumentalists(n?26,mean age:17.73±2.83 y),while Group 2 and Group 3 consisted of vocalists(n?30,mean age:19.30±2.47 y)and non-musicians(n?30,mean age:18.20±3.02 y)respectively.The binaural processes namely integration(Dichotic syllable test,DST;and virtual acoustic space identification-VASI)and interaction(Interaural difference thresholds for time and level:ITD&ILD),were administered on all the participants.Results:Statistical analyses showed the main effect of musicianship.Bonferroni pair-wise test revealed that the musicians(instrumentalists and vocalists)outperformed(p<0.05)non-musicians in all the tests.The differential advantage of the musical background was seen on the binaural integration test with instrumentalists performing better in the VASI test compared to vocalists,and vice-versa for DST.No difference was observed in interaction tasks(ITD&ILD)between vocalists and instrumentalists(p>0.05).Conclusion:Musical background-induced differential advantages can be reasonably noted in the binaural skills of instrumentalists and vocalists(compared to non-musicians).展开更多
Background:Research has shown that musicians outperform non-musicians in speech perception in noise(SPiN)tasks.However,it remains unclear whether the advantages of musical training are substantial enough to slow down ...Background:Research has shown that musicians outperform non-musicians in speech perception in noise(SPiN)tasks.However,it remains unclear whether the advantages of musical training are substantial enough to slow down the decline in SPiN performance associated with aging.Objectives:Therefore,we assessed SPiN performances in a continuum of age groups comprising musicians and non-musicians.The goal was to compare how the aging process affected SPiN performances of musicians and non-musicians.Method:A cross-sectional descriptive mixed design was used,involving 150 participants divided into 75 musicians and 75 non-musicians.Each age group(10-19,20-29,30-39,40-49,and 50-59)consisted of15 musicians and 15 non-musicians.Six Kannada sentence lists were combined with four-talker babble.At+5,0,and-5 dB signal-to-noise ratios(SNRs),the percent correct Speech Identification Scores were calculated.Results:The repeated measure ANOVA(RM ANOVA)revealed significant main effects and interaction effects between SNR,musicianship,and age groups(p<0.05).A small to large effect size was noted(ηp2=0.05 to0.17).A significant interaction effect and follow-up post hoc tests showed that SPiN abilities deteriorated more rapidly with increasing age in nonmusicians compared to musicians,especially at difficult SNRs.Conclusions:Musicians had better SPiN abilities than non-musicians across all age groups.Also,age-related deterioration in SPiN abilities was faster in non-musicians compared to musicians.展开更多
Musical training can counteract age-related decline in speech perception in noisy environments.However,it remains unclear whether older non-musicians and musicians rely on functional compensation or functional preserv...Musical training can counteract age-related decline in speech perception in noisy environments.However,it remains unclear whether older non-musicians and musicians rely on functional compensation or functional preservation to counteract the adverse efects of aging.This study utilized resting-state functional connectivity(FC)to investigate functional lateralization,a fundamental organization feature,in older musicians(OM),older non-musicians(ONM),and young non-musicians(YNM).Results showed that OM outperformed ONM and achieved comparable performance to YNM in speech-in-noise and speech-in-speech tasks.ONM exhibited reduced lateralization than YNM in lateralization index(LI)of intrahemispheric FC(LI_intra)in the cingulo-opercular network(CON)and LI of interhemispheric heterotopic FC(LI_he)in the language network(LAN).Conversely,OM showed higher neural alignment to YNM(i.e.,a more similar lateralization pattern)compared to ONM in CON,LAN,frontoparietal network(FPN),dorsal attention network(DAN),and default mode network(DMN),indicating preservation of youth-like lateralization patterns due to musical experience.Furthermore,in ONM,stronger left-lateralized and lower alignment-to-young of LI_intra in the somatomotor network(SMN)and DAN and LI_he in DMN correlated with better speech performance,indicating a functional compensation mechanism.In contrast,stronger right-lateralized LI_intra in FPN and DAN and higher alignment-to-young of LI_he in LAN correlated with better performance in OM,suggesting a functional preservation mechanism.These fndings highlight the diferential roles of functional preservation and compensation of lateralization in speech perception in noise among elderly individuals with and without musical expertise,ofering insights into successful aging theories from the lens of functional lateralization and speech perception.展开更多
文摘Background:Musical perception requires a host of skills.Instrumental musicians place greater emphasis on motor coordination,whereas vocal musicians rehearse vocal sounds.The study explored the differential advantages of musical background on binaural integration and interaction in musicians(instrumentalists,vocalists)and compared them with age-matched non-musicians.Methods:Eight six participants aged 20e40 y with normal hearing sensitivity were subjected to binaural tests using a standard group comparison research design.The participants were segregated into three groups e Group 1 included instrumentalists(n?26,mean age:17.73±2.83 y),while Group 2 and Group 3 consisted of vocalists(n?30,mean age:19.30±2.47 y)and non-musicians(n?30,mean age:18.20±3.02 y)respectively.The binaural processes namely integration(Dichotic syllable test,DST;and virtual acoustic space identification-VASI)and interaction(Interaural difference thresholds for time and level:ITD&ILD),were administered on all the participants.Results:Statistical analyses showed the main effect of musicianship.Bonferroni pair-wise test revealed that the musicians(instrumentalists and vocalists)outperformed(p<0.05)non-musicians in all the tests.The differential advantage of the musical background was seen on the binaural integration test with instrumentalists performing better in the VASI test compared to vocalists,and vice-versa for DST.No difference was observed in interaction tasks(ITD&ILD)between vocalists and instrumentalists(p>0.05).Conclusion:Musical background-induced differential advantages can be reasonably noted in the binaural skills of instrumentalists and vocalists(compared to non-musicians).
文摘Background:Research has shown that musicians outperform non-musicians in speech perception in noise(SPiN)tasks.However,it remains unclear whether the advantages of musical training are substantial enough to slow down the decline in SPiN performance associated with aging.Objectives:Therefore,we assessed SPiN performances in a continuum of age groups comprising musicians and non-musicians.The goal was to compare how the aging process affected SPiN performances of musicians and non-musicians.Method:A cross-sectional descriptive mixed design was used,involving 150 participants divided into 75 musicians and 75 non-musicians.Each age group(10-19,20-29,30-39,40-49,and 50-59)consisted of15 musicians and 15 non-musicians.Six Kannada sentence lists were combined with four-talker babble.At+5,0,and-5 dB signal-to-noise ratios(SNRs),the percent correct Speech Identification Scores were calculated.Results:The repeated measure ANOVA(RM ANOVA)revealed significant main effects and interaction effects between SNR,musicianship,and age groups(p<0.05).A small to large effect size was noted(ηp2=0.05 to0.17).A significant interaction effect and follow-up post hoc tests showed that SPiN abilities deteriorated more rapidly with increasing age in nonmusicians compared to musicians,especially at difficult SNRs.Conclusions:Musicians had better SPiN abilities than non-musicians across all age groups.Also,age-related deterioration in SPiN abilities was faster in non-musicians compared to musicians.
基金supported by STI 2030-Major Projects(2021ZD0201500)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31822024,31671172,and 32300881)+1 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB32010300)the Scientifc Foundation of Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(E1CX172005 and E1CX4725CX).
文摘Musical training can counteract age-related decline in speech perception in noisy environments.However,it remains unclear whether older non-musicians and musicians rely on functional compensation or functional preservation to counteract the adverse efects of aging.This study utilized resting-state functional connectivity(FC)to investigate functional lateralization,a fundamental organization feature,in older musicians(OM),older non-musicians(ONM),and young non-musicians(YNM).Results showed that OM outperformed ONM and achieved comparable performance to YNM in speech-in-noise and speech-in-speech tasks.ONM exhibited reduced lateralization than YNM in lateralization index(LI)of intrahemispheric FC(LI_intra)in the cingulo-opercular network(CON)and LI of interhemispheric heterotopic FC(LI_he)in the language network(LAN).Conversely,OM showed higher neural alignment to YNM(i.e.,a more similar lateralization pattern)compared to ONM in CON,LAN,frontoparietal network(FPN),dorsal attention network(DAN),and default mode network(DMN),indicating preservation of youth-like lateralization patterns due to musical experience.Furthermore,in ONM,stronger left-lateralized and lower alignment-to-young of LI_intra in the somatomotor network(SMN)and DAN and LI_he in DMN correlated with better speech performance,indicating a functional compensation mechanism.In contrast,stronger right-lateralized LI_intra in FPN and DAN and higher alignment-to-young of LI_he in LAN correlated with better performance in OM,suggesting a functional preservation mechanism.These fndings highlight the diferential roles of functional preservation and compensation of lateralization in speech perception in noise among elderly individuals with and without musical expertise,ofering insights into successful aging theories from the lens of functional lateralization and speech perception.
