Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception
Musical training has been associated with various cognitive benefits, one of which is enhanced speech perception. However, most findings have been based on musicians taking part in ongoing music lessons and practice. This study thus sought to determine whether the musician advantage in pitch percept...
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| description | Musical training has been associated with various cognitive benefits, one of which is enhanced speech perception. However, most findings have been based on musicians taking part in ongoing music lessons and practice. This study thus sought to determine whether the musician advantage in pitch perception in the language domain extends to individuals who have ceased musical training and practice. To this end, adult active musicians (n = 22), former musicians (n = 27), and non-musicians (n = 47) were presented with sentences spoken in a native language, English, and a foreign language, French. The final words of the sentences were either prosodically congruous (spoken at normal pitch height), weakly incongruous (pitch was increased by 25%), or strongly incongruous (pitch was increased by 110%). Results of the pitch discrimination task revealed that although active musicians outperformed former musicians, former musicians outperformed non-musicians in the weakly incongruous condition. The findings suggest that the musician advantage in pitch perception in speech is retained to some extent even after musical training and practice is discontinued. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1687632024-08-21T07:57:33Z Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception Toh, Xin Ru Tan, Shen Hui Wong, Galston Lau, Fun Wong, Francis C. K. School of Humanities Social Sciences Pitch Discrimination Musician Musical training has been associated with various cognitive benefits, one of which is enhanced speech perception. However, most findings have been based on musicians taking part in ongoing music lessons and practice. This study thus sought to determine whether the musician advantage in pitch perception in the language domain extends to individuals who have ceased musical training and practice. To this end, adult active musicians (n = 22), former musicians (n = 27), and non-musicians (n = 47) were presented with sentences spoken in a native language, English, and a foreign language, French. The final words of the sentences were either prosodically congruous (spoken at normal pitch height), weakly incongruous (pitch was increased by 25%), or strongly incongruous (pitch was increased by 110%). Results of the pitch discrimination task revealed that although active musicians outperformed former musicians, former musicians outperformed non-musicians in the weakly incongruous condition. The findings suggest that the musician advantage in pitch perception in speech is retained to some extent even after musical training and practice is discontinued. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This study was supported by research grants from the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore (MOE2019- SSRTG-016, MOE-T2EP402A20-0003). 2023-06-19T02:55:51Z 2023-06-19T02:55:51Z 2023 Journal Article Toh, X. R., Tan, S. H., Wong, G., Lau, F. & Wong, F. C. K. (2023). Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 2657-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29733-3 2045-2322 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168763 10.1038/s41598-023-29733-3 36788323 2-s2.0-85148077012 1 13 2657 en MOE2019-SSRTG-016 MOE-T2EP402A20-0003 Scientific Reports doi:10.21979/N9/XDXX5E © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Pitch Discrimination Musician Toh, Xin Ru Tan, Shen Hui Wong, Galston Lau, Fun Wong, Francis C. K. Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception |
| title | Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception |
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| title_short | Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception |
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| topic | Social Sciences Pitch Discrimination Musician |
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