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A large-scale study from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota found no evidence that musical training enhances neural processing of sounds.
The study attempted to recreate several results from past studies and found no evidence of several key findings.
Musicians demonstrated no greater ability to process speech in background sounds than non-musicians.
The study did find that early brain processing for speech degrades with age, a finding supported by prior research.
This effect of age was unrelated to musical training.
The researchers hope that future studies will be designed with a musical training intervention and an active control to answer the question of whether musical training causes better sound processing or if people who process better are more likely to become musicians.