Musical Training: A Fountain of Youth

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack In today's episode we discuss a research article investigating the impact of long-term musical training on age-related changes in brain activity, specifically during speech-in-noise perception. The study compares older musicians, older non-musicians, and young non-musicians using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain connectivity. It explores two hypotheses: whether musical training bolsters age-related neural compensation ...