New paper in Journal of Neuroscience.

We just published in Journal of Neuroscience with Sebastian Puschmann, Mor Regev & Robert Zatorre:
"MEG inter-subject phase-locking of stimulus-driven activity during naturalistic speech listening correlates with musical training."

Inspired by fMRI approaches, we developed a new MEG inter-subject analysis approach to study the cortical synchronization of stimulus-driven neural responses during the perception of continuous natural speech and its relationship to individual musical training.

Our results provide evidence that musical training is associated with higher synchronization of stimulus-driven activity between brain regions involved in early auditory sensory and higher-order processing.

We suggest that the increased synchronized propagation of speech information may contribute to the previously described musician advantage in processing speech in background noise.

All analyses with Brainstorm!