News Finding: They might also explain why musicians appear to be more attuned to environmental sounds, like picking out a single voice in the din of a crowded room.
Paper Finding: As musical training requires synchronous processing of somatosensory, motor, and visual areas, these areas will likely provide modulatory rhythmic input into auditory cortex, further enhancing entrainment to the musical stimulus.
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  The findings might help explain why aEUR" in my completely unscientific sampling of friends and acquaintances aEUR" musicians tend to be more tolerant of slow, ambient, droning music (my pal Kevin thrives at a dreamy 0.6 notes per second). They might also explain why musicians appear to be more attuned to environmental sounds, like picking out a single voice in the din of a crowded room. Poeppel is quick to acknowledge that his work by no means proves that entrainment equates with being a good musician.
Paper Context: ref. As musical training requires synchronous processing of somatosensory, motor, and visual areas, these areas will likely provide modulatory rhythmic input into auditory cortex, further enhancing entrainment to the musical stimulus. Last, the training effect we show could be due to recruitment of more brain regions for processing music.