OBJECTIVE To examine how auditory brain responses change with increased spectral complexity of sounds in musicians and non-musicians. METHODS Event-related potentials (ERPs) and fields (ERFs) to binaural piano tones were measured in musicians and non-musicians. The stimuli were C4 piano tones and a pure sine tone of the C4 fundamental frequency (f0). The first piano tone contained f0 and the ...

Psychological conditions were studied in 20 musicians with focal dystonia and compared with 20 musicians with chronic pain and 30 healthy musicians using the Freiburg Personality Inventory and the Questionnaire for Competence and Control Orientations. Additional questionnaires focused on perfectionism and anxiety particularly with regard to the dynamics of these psychological features. Musician...

Earlier studies have shown that musically trained individuals may a benefit in adverse listening situations when compared to non-musicians, especially speech-on-speech perception. However, the literature provides mostly conflicting results. In current study, by employing different measures of spoken language processing, we aimed test whether could capture potential differences between musicians...

PURPOSE This study gives a systematic overview of the literature on the occurrence of musculoskeletal complaints in professional instrumental musicians. METHODS A systematic review. Nine literature databases were searched without time limits on June 25, 2015, also the complete index of the journal Medical Problems of Performing Artists (MPPA) until June 2015 (30;2) was searched, and citation ...

This study investigated the categorization of Mandarin lexical tones and music melodic tones by listeners differing in linguistic and musical experience (English musicians, English non-musicians, and Mandarin non-musicians). Linguistic tonal continua were created from the Mandarin rising to level, and falling to level tones. Melodic continua were created by varying the note D under the context ...