News Finding: Moreover, musicians much more accurately detected pitch distortions--as evidenced by corresponding cortical oscillations.
Paper Finding: Musical Training Enhances Entrainment.
News Context: This difference, the researchers say, may suggest that non-musicians are unable to process the music as a continuous melody rather than as individual notes. Moreover, musicians much more accurately detected pitch distortions--as evidenced by corresponding cortical oscillations. Brain rhythms, they add, therefore appear to play a role in parsing and grouping sound streams into "chunks" that are then analyzed as speech or music.
Paper Context: This relationship demonstrates that faithful tracking enhances processing of the auditory stimulus, even when the task is not temporal but pitch-based. Musical Training Enhances Entrainment. As expected, we found ( Importantly, we also found a main effect of musical expertise [F (1,66) = 9.12, P < 0.005].