Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss

Lerousseau, Jacques Pesnot; Hidalgo, Céline; Schön, Daniele

doi:10.3390/jcm9041058

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“…Music training research in general (across both typically developing and clinical populations) is in need of clear, hypothesis-driven experiments that aim to train the precise mechanisms predicted to be shared between music and speech/language processing. Although there are a limited number of studies investigating pure rhythmic training, current meta-analyses and systematic reviews of music training (not specific to rhythm) report beneficial transfer effects on speech/language skills, albeit weak to moderate (Cooper, 2020;Gordon et al, 2015;Pesnot Lerousseau et al, 2020;Román-Caballero et al, 2021). These reviews and related discussions (see Schellenberg, 2019a) also underline the need for more systematic research, in particular including the use of random assignment to groups and an active control group to investigate causal effects of music training on related abilities (see also the series of exchanges in Bidelman & Mankel, 2019;Bidelman, 2018 andSchellenberg, 2019b for a discussion of musical aptitude versus training).…”

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Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.

Fiveash¹,

Bedoin²,

Gordon³

et al. 2021

Neuropsychology

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Objective: Music and speech are complex signals containing regularities in how they unfold in time. Similarities between music and speech/language in terms of their auditory features, rhythmic structure, and hierarchical structure have led to a large body of literature suggesting connections between the two domains. However, the precise underlying mechanisms behind this connection remain to be elucidated. Method: In this theoretical review article, we synthesize previous research and present a framework of potentially shared neural mechanisms for music and speech rhythm processing. We outline structural similarities of rhythmic signals in music and speech, synthesize prominent music and speech rhythm theories, discuss impaired timing in developmental speech and language disorders, and discuss music rhythm training as an additional, potentially effective therapeutic tool to enhance speech/language processing in these disorders. Results: We propose the processing rhythm in speech and music (PRISM) framework, which outlines three underlying mechanisms that appear to be shared across music and speech/language processing: Precise auditory processing, synchronization/entrainment of neural oscillations to external stimuli, and sensorimotor coupling. The goal of this framework is to inform directions for future research that integrate cognitive and biological evidence for relationships between rhythm processing in music and speech. Conclusion: The current framework can be used as a basis to investigate potential links between observed timing deficits in developmental disorders, impairments in the proposed mechanisms, and pathology-specific deficits which can be targeted in treatment and training supporting speech therapy outcomes. On these grounds, we propose future research directions and discuss implications of our framework.

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confidence: 94%

Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.

Fiveash¹,

Bedoin²,

Gordon³

et al. 2021

Neuropsychology

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“…Thus, the “musician SIN benefit” depends largely on task structure ( Yoo and Bidelman, 2019 ). Moreover, cocktail party listening draws upon general cognitive faculties (e.g., memory and attention), and musicians are known to differ from non-musicians in the domains of WM ( Bugos et al, 2007 ; Bidelman et al, 2013 ; Yoo and Bidelman, 2019 ), attention ( Strait et al, 2010 ; Strait and Kraus, 2011 ; Sares et al, 2018 ; Medina and Barraza, 2019 ; Yoo and Bidelman, 2019 ), and executive functioning ( Bugos et al, 2007 ; Bialystok and Depape, 2009 ; Moreno et al, 2011 ; for review, see Moreno and Bidelman, 2014 ; Zuk et al, 2014 ; Lerousseau et al, 2020 ).…”

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Musicians Show Improved Speech Segregation in Competitive, Multi-Talker Cocktail Party Scenarios

Bidelman

Yoo

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Studies suggest that long-term music experience enhances the brain's ability to segregate speech from noise. Musicians' "speech-in-noise (SIN) benefit" is based largely on perception from simple figure-ground tasks rather than competitive, multitalker scenarios that offer realistic spatial cues for segregation and engage binaural processing. We aimed to investigate whether musicians show perceptual advantages in cocktail party speech segregation in a competitive, multi-talker environment. We used the coordinate response measure (CRM) paradigm to measure speech recognition and localization performance in musicians vs. non-musicians in a simulated 3D cocktail party environment conducted in an anechoic chamber. Speech was delivered through a 16-channel speaker array distributed around the horizontal soundfield surrounding the listener. Participants recalled the color, number, and perceived location of target callsign sentences. We manipulated task difficulty by varying the number of additional maskers presented at other spatial locations in the horizontal soundfield (0-1-2-3-4-6-8 multi-talkers). Musicians obtained faster and better speech recognition amidst up to around eight simultaneous talkers and showed less noise-related decline in performance with increasing interferers than their non-musician peers. Correlations revealed associations between listeners' years of musical training and CRM recognition and working memory. However, better working memory correlated with better speech streaming. Basic (QuickSIN) but not more complex (speech streaming) SIN processing was still predicted by music training after controlling for working memory. Our findings confirm a relationship between musicianship and naturalistic cocktail party speech streaming but also suggest that cognitive factors at least partially drive musicians' SIN advantage.

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“…Over the past few years, many training and rehabilitation strategies have been developed to enhance the pitch perception abilities in CI users. For instance, some training focused on auditory musical training [ 34 , 39 , 105 , 119 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 ]. Most of these trainings used the Melodic Contour Identification task [ 102 , 105 ], in which a subject hears a melody, and has to recognize its contour and select the correct response among several contour visual representations.…”

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Rapid Assessment of Non-Verbal Auditory Perception in Normal-Hearing Participants and Cochlear Implant Users

Pralus

Hermann

Cholvy

et al. 2021

JCM

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In the case of hearing loss, cochlear implants (CI) allow for the restoration of hearing. Despite the advantages of CIs for speech perception, CI users still complain about their poor perception of their auditory environment. Aiming to assess non-verbal auditory perception in CI users, we developed five listening tests. These tests measure pitch change detection, pitch direction identification, pitch short-term memory, auditory stream segregation, and emotional prosody recognition, along with perceived intensity ratings. In order to test the potential benefit of visual cues for pitch processing, the three pitch tests included half of the trials with visual indications to perform the task. We tested 10 normal-hearing (NH) participants with material being presented as original and vocoded sounds, and 10 post-lingually deaf CI users. With the vocoded sounds, the NH participants had reduced scores for the detection of small pitch differences, and reduced emotion recognition and streaming abilities compared to the original sounds. Similarly, the CI users had deficits for small differences in the pitch change detection task and emotion recognition, as well as a decreased streaming capacity. Overall, this assessment allows for the rapid detection of specific patterns of non-verbal auditory perception deficits. The current findings also open new perspectives about how to enhance pitch perception capacities using visual cues.

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Musical Training for Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Loss

Cited by 8 publications

References 141 publications

Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.

Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.

Musicians Show Improved Speech Segregation in Competitive, Multi-Talker Cocktail Party Scenarios

Rapid Assessment of Non-Verbal Auditory Perception in Normal-Hearing Participants and Cochlear Implant Users

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