Sentence examples for auditory expertise from inspiring English sources

Our results parcellate speech-selective regions into those related to auditory expertise and those related to acoustical/information content.

Indeed, one of the effects of auditory expertise will be to enhance the recognition of auditory sequences over longer timescales.

Speech-selective regions related to auditory expertise were those activated by speech in both groups and by music in violinists.

Furthermore, pSTS is associated with learning inter-sensory pairings (Tanabe, Honda & Sadato, 2005), with auditory expertise (Leech, Holt, Devlin & Dick, 2009) and shows sensitivity to congruency in ongoing audio-visual speech (Calvert et al., 2000).

The auditory expertise engendered by musical training during childhood and into adulthood promotes the subcortical encoding of speech [ 20, 21] and may strengthen neural mechanisms that undergird child literacy [ 22- 24].

To distinguish the effect of auditory expertise from the influence of performing arts training, we also differentiated activation that is selective to the sounds that performers have been trained to produce.

These regions were associated with expertise in fine-grained auditory analysis, speech categorization, audiomotor integration, and the auditory sequence processing.

In summary, the regions that we associate with audiomotor expertise are associated with fine-grained auditory analysis (right pSTS), speech categorization (left pSTS), audiomotor integration (left PT), and the integration of sound sequences over long timescales (left aSTG).

The main effect of expertise possibly indicates more efficient processing by the auditory cortex as a function of musical proficiency.

However, this study did not directly compare music to speech processing and therefore did not distinguish regions that were modulated by auditory experience from those that were speech-selective despite musical expertise.

The goal of the present study was to test the hypothesis that an important determinant of the differentiation between ventral and dorsal streams of auditory processing in the temporal lobe is the familiarity and level of expertise of listeners with the sounds.