Comparing musicians and non-musicians in signal-in-noise perception.

The objective is to compare musicians and non-musicians in signal-in-noise perception. Participants underwent the following tests: (1) High-frequency (HF) audiometry, (2) QuickSIN (a test for speech perception in noise), and (3) Binaural Masking Level Difference (BMLD) test (a test that examines the hearing threshold of a low-frequency tone from noise masking when the phase of the signal or noise in one ear is reversed with respect to the phase of the signal or noise in the other ear, i.e.

Musicians Are Better than Non-musicians in Frequency Change Detection: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence.

The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine if musicians have a better ability to detect frequency changes under quiet and noisy conditions; (2) to use the acoustic change complex (ACC), a type of electroencephalographic (EEG) response, to understand the neural substrates of musician vs. non-musician difference in frequency change detection abilities. Twenty-four young normal hearing listeners (12 musicians and 12 non-musicians) participated.

Cortical encoding of timbre changes in cochlear implant users.

Background: Most cochlear implant (CI) users describe music as a noise-like and unpleasant sound. Using behavioral tests, most prior studies have shown that perception of pitch-based melody and timbre is poor in CI users.

Purpose: This article will focus on cortical encoding of timbre changes in CI users, which may allow us to find solutions to further improve CI benefits.

Impaired perception of harmonic complexity in congenital amusia: a case study.

This study investigates whether congenital amusia (an inability to perceive music from birth) also impairs the perception of musical qualities that do not rely on fine-grained pitch discrimination. We established that G.G.