Topic: non-musicians

Previous research indicated that neural responses to acoustic signals can differ in musicians and non-musicians. For instance, subcortical responses to speech sounds are stronger in musicians (Anderson et al. 2012). These neural responses include the frequency-following response at the fundamental frequency of the speech signal (speech-FFR). However, the speech-FFR also includes a cortical contribution with potential dependence on musical experience which is not yet known.We measured the cortical contribution to the speech-FFR via MEG recordings in 42 participants with different levels of musi