Andrew Oxenham: How far does musical training generalize?
Date:
Fri, 09/27/2019 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
I’m really pleased that Prof. Andrew Oxenham will be here at CCRMA on Friday afternoon to talk about: How far does musical training generalize? This is a special time (3PM) to accommodate his travel schedule. I’m glad we get to welcome him to Stanford.
Andrew has an amazing record studying auditory perception. He has looked at some of the most important problems in psychoacoustics and neurophysiology, with creative and robust experiments. Lately he has returned to the intersection of music and auditory perception, examining the relationship between musical training and numerous aspects of auditory perception.
Who: Andrew Oxenham - Univ of Minnesota
What: How far does musical training generalize?
When: Friday September 27th at 3PM <<< Note special time!!
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Why: Is musical training the source of all success in life?
Abstract:
Studies over the past decade have suggested that musical training confers benefits that extend beyond the realm of music, that it may enhance the neural coding and perception of speech in noise, and that it may therefore protect against some of the common effects of aging on understanding speech in noisy backgrounds. This talk will explore the possible roots of these benefits in terms of enhanced pitch coding and perception, and will present data that question some of these earlier conclusions. The new results, along with a critical review of the existing literature, suggest that the field is ripe for a large-scale effort to establish the reproducibility of the original seminal studies.
Andrew has an amazing record studying auditory perception. He has looked at some of the most important problems in psychoacoustics and neurophysiology, with creative and robust experiments. Lately he has returned to the intersection of music and auditory perception, examining the relationship between musical training and numerous aspects of auditory perception.
Who: Andrew Oxenham - Univ of Minnesota
What: How far does musical training generalize?
When: Friday September 27th at 3PM <<< Note special time!!
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Why: Is musical training the source of all success in life?
Abstract:
Studies over the past decade have suggested that musical training confers benefits that extend beyond the realm of music, that it may enhance the neural coding and perception of speech in noise, and that it may therefore protect against some of the common effects of aging on understanding speech in noisy backgrounds. This talk will explore the possible roots of these benefits in terms of enhanced pitch coding and perception, and will present data that question some of these earlier conclusions. The new results, along with a critical review of the existing literature, suggest that the field is ripe for a large-scale effort to establish the reproducibility of the original seminal studies.
Andrew Oxenham is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Otolaryngology at the University of Minnesota. His areas of research include auditory and speech perception in people with normal hearing, impaired hearing, and cochlear implants. Specific areas of interest include pitch, auditory scene analysis, and context effects. He has published over 200 journal articles and book chapters, and has received awards from the Acoustical Society of America and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the founding co-Director of the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS) and the founding Editor in Chief of the journal Trends in Hearing.
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