Any improvements in pure-tone discrimination must transfer to complex-tone discrimination (see [7]), especially vocal tones, in order to conclude that improved auditory skills may result in better error detection in auditory feedback and more accurate singing.
It was concluded that although there was some evidence to support improved auditory skills trained during the published studies, there was no firm evidence to suggest that auditory training translated to effective, real-world benefits.
Additionally, our results indicate a musician enhancement for auditory, but not visual, working memory, supporting the notion that life-long musical training refines skills most relevant to musical processing, namely auditory skills, rather than improving memory in a domain-general fashion.
We therefore conclude that training-enhanced auditory skills are not sufficient to improve vocal accuracy in non-musicians.
Therefore, we cannot conclude that enhanced auditory skills resulting from short-term discrimination training are sufficient to improve vocal accuracy in non-musicians.
No one she profiles, it seems, will fully recover — one patient remains in a persistent vegetative state, and his family is told he won't improve at all — but others emerge from minimally conscious states to struggle with motor, cognitive and auditory skills.
"They can see, remember and identify better than average, but they are weaker in their auditory skills".
Since everybody has auditory skills, we're all potential listeners.
Vuust, P., Brattico, E., Seppänen, M., Näatänen, R. & Tervaniemi, M. Practiced musical style shapes auditory skills.
"You can talk on the phone and drive a car because driving the car involves visual and motor skills more than auditory skills," Dr. Anton said.
The auditory skills of the children were assessed before implantation and 1 year following implantation.
