Dear everyone,
I'm currently conducting a literature review on the transfer of musical expertise onto other domains of cognition, as part of a paper where I compare musicians with sound engineers across a number of behavioural tasks, i.e. psychophysics, auditory scene analysis, sustained selective attention, and speech in noise perception.
I am specifically interested in papers that failed to detect an association between musicianship and any of these dimensions, which are surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) very hard to find via canonical search engines.
Would anyone know of any recent papers that might fit into this category?
I’m only aware of the mixed literature on speech in noise perception (see refs below).
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Francesco
**References**
Boebinger, D., Evans, S., Rosen, S., Lima, C. F., Manly, T., & Scott, S. K. (2015). Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(1), 378–387.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4904537
Fuller, C. D., Galvin, J. J., Maat, B., Free, R. H., & Başkent, D. (2014). The musician effect: Does it persist under degraded pitch conditions of cochlear implant simulations? Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8(8 JUN), 1–16.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00179
Madsen, S. M. K., Whiteford, K. L., & Oxenham, A. J. (2017). Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1–9.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12937-9
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Francesco Caprini
PhD student in Auditory Neuroscience
Birkbeck, University of London
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