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What Would Life Be – Without a Song or Dance, What Are We?
from the International Longevity Centre UK This new report summarises the work of the Commission on Dementia and Music, set-up and coordinated by ILC-UK, with support from The Utley Foundation. With the number of people living with dementia in the UK expected to reach one million by 2025, this is
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20Q: Noise, Aging and the Brain
– How Experience and Training Can Improve Communication by Nina Kraus Learning a foreign language – or learning how to play an instrument – can improve your hearing in noisy situations later in life. Studies show that “hearing in noise ability does in fact improve with short-term software-based training. An
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Music Keeps the Hearing Brain Young
by Nina Kraus, PhD, and Travis White-Schwoch This short article addresses the benefit of musical training – even later in life. There is still a potential for aging brains to benefit from making music. In addition, “There is emotional satisfaction that comes from engaging in music, and using a group
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Neurobiology of Everyday Communication:
What Have We Learned From Music? by Nina Kraus and Travis White-Schwoch New studies have shown the positive effects of community music training. Music making encourages an active and repeated engagement with sound that helps the brain process speech. It facilitates “sound-to-meaning connections.… Specifically, preschoolers and older adults engaged in
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Music Training:
Lifelong Investment to Protect the Brain from Aging and Hearing Loss by Nina Kraus & Travis White-Schwoch “Age-related declines in auditory processing are not inevitable.” Studies of older individuals who have played instruments for their entire lives reveal they have fewer challenges with hearing than non-musicians later in life. “Music
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Music Benefits Across Lifespan:
Enhanced Processing of Speech in Noise by Nina Kraus, PhD, & Samira Anderson, AuD, PhD This article addresses the effects of music training through different stages of life. At the end it suggests that “a music-based auditory training program may provide significant benefits for neural processing and speech perception in
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Hearing Research magazine:
Special Issue on Music from The Parkinson’s Foundation See an impressive graphic showing how musicians and non musicians process sound over their lifetimes.
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Art and Music
from the Alzheimer’s Association “Even in the late-stages of Alzheimer’s, a person may be able to tap a beat or sing lyrics to a song from childhood. Music provides a way to connect, even after verbal communication has become difficult.” Read the full article here
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Older Adults Benefit from Music Training Early in Life:
Biological Evidence for Long-Term Training-Driven Plasticity by Travis White-Schwoch, Kali Woodruff Carr, Samira Anderson, Dana L. Strait, and Nina Kraus Studies addressed in this article examine the effects of nominal, moderate and lifelong amounts of music training. Results show that not only does lifelong music training help diminish age-related declines,