News Finding: 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.
Paper Finding: This marks a stark contrast with nonmusicians and may suggest that musical training extends the frequency limit of cortical tracking.
News Context: Only musicians, however, showed oscillations that synchronized with unusually slow clips. 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.
Paper Context: The musicians did show significant entrainment at 0.7 Hz for the corresponding stimuli. This marks a stark contrast with nonmusicians and may suggest that musical training extends the frequency limit of cortical tracking. However, comparing above and below 1 nps (as in experiments 1 and 2) still showed a significant increase above 1 nps (experiment 3, T = 2.44, P < 0.05), suggesting musicians were better at entraining to the higher frequencies.