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Musicians experience less age-related decline in central auditory processing.

Benjamin Rich Zendel1, Claude Alain

  • 1Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. b.zendel@utoronto.ca

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Lifelong musical training may preserve auditory processing abilities, reducing age-related declines in speech comprehension and temporal gap detection. Musicians showed less central auditory decline compared to nonmusicians.

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Area of Science:

  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Aging Research

Background:

  • Age-related auditory decline impacts speech perception, particularly in noise.
  • This decline involves reduced sensitivity to spectral and temporal details.
  • Musical training in youth can enhance auditory processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if lifelong musicians experience less age-related decline in auditory perception.
  • To compare auditory processing abilities between lifelong musicians and nonmusicians across different age groups.

Main Methods:

  • Auditory processing abilities were measured in lifelong musicians (N=74) and nonmusicians (N=89).
  • Participants' ages ranged from 18 to 91 years.
  • Tests included gap detection, speech-in-noise, mistuned harmonic detection, and pure-tone thresholds.

Main Results:

  • Musicians showed less age-related decline in gap detection and speech-in-noise tasks.
  • Musicians exhibited a lifelong advantage in mistuned harmonic detection.
  • Hearing sensitivity decline (pure-tone thresholds) was similar in both groups.

Conclusions:

  • Lifelong musical experience may mitigate age-related decline in central auditory processing.
  • Musicians maintain better speech-in-noise understanding and temporal processing with age.
  • Musical training offers long-term benefits for auditory perception resilience.