Musical experience offsets age-related delays in neural timing

Alexandra Parbery-Clark; Samira Anderson; Emily Hittner; Nina Kraus

doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.12.015

Musical experience offsets age-related delays in neural timing

Alexandra Parbery-Clark, Samira Anderson, Emily Hittner, Nina Kraus^*

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Abstract

Aging disrupts neural timing, reducing the nervous system's ability to precisely encode sound. Given that the neural representation of temporal features is strengthened with musical training in young adults, can musical training offset the negative impact of aging on neural processing? By comparing auditory brainstem timing in younger and older musicians and nonmusicians to a consonant-vowel speech sound /da/. we document a musician's resilience to age-related delays in neural timing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1483.e1-1483.e4
Journal	Neurobiology of Aging
Volume	33
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.12.015
State	Published - Jul 2012

Keywords

Aging
Auditory brainstem response
Music
Plasticity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuroscience(all)
Aging
Clinical Neurology
Developmental Biology
Geriatrics and Gerontology

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