HTTP:: Making Music Improves Hearing
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Teenagers around the world fighting their parents for a decent volume level on their stereos can now finally say that they have science on their side. New studies reveal that composing and playing music can be good for their hearing, in that they become more able to discern voices and speech out of noisy backgrounds. Apparently, making music has the interesting and beneficial side-effect of allowing musicians to hear better under “speech-in-noise,†where they have to understand what someone is telling them over background noises. Researchers believe that musical training is directly responsible for this ability. “Speech-in-noise is challenging for everyone, but it’s especially challenging for older adults and children with learning disabilities. If we could establish that musical experience could help perception of speech-in-noise, that has all kinds of provocative implications in terms of encouraging policy-makers and parents to pursue musical education for their!
kids,†Northwestern University neuroscientist Nina Kraus, the co-author of the new study, published in this month's issue of the journal Ear and Hearing, says. For the new experiments, 16 participants with musical training and 15 without were selected, and they were all subjected to two tests, in which they had to listen to sente...
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