Inherent auditory skills rather than formal music training shape the neural encoding of speech [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

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 brainstem and cortical levels. These assumptions stem largely from cross-sectional studies between musicians and nonmusicians which cannot address whether training itself is sufficient...

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