Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds

Abstract Recent studies disagree on whether musicians have an advantage over non-musicians in understanding speech in noise. However, it has been suggested that musicians may be able to use differences in fundamental frequency (F0) to better understand target speech in the presence of interfering ta...

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Autores principales:	Sara M. K. Madsen, Kelly L. Whiteford, Andrew J. Oxenham
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:394eca1aab504d678f77a26c6149ad112021-12-02T15:05:43ZMusicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds10.1038/s41598-017-12937-92045-2322https://doaj.org/article/394eca1aab504d678f77a26c6149ad112017-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12937-9https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Recent studies disagree on whether musicians have an advantage over non-musicians in understanding speech in noise. However, it has been suggested that musicians may be able to use differences in fundamental frequency (F0) to better understand target speech in the presence of interfering talkers. Here we studied a relatively large (N = 60) cohort of young adults, equally divided between non-musicians and highly trained musicians, to test whether the musicians were better able to understand speech either in noise or in a two-talker competing speech masker. The target speech and competing speech were presented with either their natural F0 contours or on a monotone F0, and the F0 difference between the target and masker was systematically varied. As expected, speech intelligibility improved with increasing F0 difference between the target and the two-talker masker for both natural and monotone speech. However, no significant intelligibility advantage was observed for musicians over non-musicians in any condition. Although F0 discrimination was significantly better for musicians than for non-musicians, it was not correlated with speech scores. Overall, the results do not support the hypothesis that musical training leads to improved speech intelligibility in complex speech or noise backgrounds.Sara M. K. MadsenKelly L. WhitefordAndrew J. OxenhamNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Sara M. K. Madsen Kelly L. Whiteford Andrew J. Oxenham Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
description	Abstract Recent studies disagree on whether musicians have an advantage over non-musicians in understanding speech in noise. However, it has been suggested that musicians may be able to use differences in fundamental frequency (F0) to better understand target speech in the presence of interfering talkers. Here we studied a relatively large (N = 60) cohort of young adults, equally divided between non-musicians and highly trained musicians, to test whether the musicians were better able to understand speech either in noise or in a two-talker competing speech masker. The target speech and competing speech were presented with either their natural F0 contours or on a monotone F0, and the F0 difference between the target and masker was systematically varied. As expected, speech intelligibility improved with increasing F0 difference between the target and the two-talker masker for both natural and monotone speech. However, no significant intelligibility advantage was observed for musicians over non-musicians in any condition. Although F0 discrimination was significantly better for musicians than for non-musicians, it was not correlated with speech scores. Overall, the results do not support the hypothesis that musical training leads to improved speech intelligibility in complex speech or noise backgrounds.
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author	Sara M. K. Madsen Kelly L. Whiteford Andrew J. Oxenham
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title	Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
title_short	Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
title_full	Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
title_fullStr	Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
title_full_unstemmed	Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
title_sort	musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2017
url	https://doaj.org/article/394eca1aab504d678f77a26c6149ad11
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Musicians do not benefit from differences in fundamental frequency when listening to speech in competing speech backgrounds

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