Are high perceptual precision demands always necessary for training to drive auditory neural plasticity? 🧠 🔊🎙️ Find out more in this cool study with voice actors doi.org/10.1016/j.co... by @mkachlicka.bsky.social & @adamtierney.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social #auditory #neuroscience 🧵1/6 - ThreadSky

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audioneurolab.bsky.social • 47 days ago

Are high perceptual precision demands always necessary for training to drive auditory neural plasticity? 🧠 🔊🎙️ Find out more in this cool study with voice actors https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.06.016 by @mkachlicka.bsky.social & @adamtierney.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social #auditory #neuroscience 🧵1/6

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audioneurolab.bsky.social•47 days ago

Professional 🎙️voice actors 🎙️ exaggerate prosodic patterns to convey emotion, character or accents, drawing upon auditory attention, memory, and accurate sound production, but not fine perceptual precision. 🧵2/6

audioneurolab.bsky.social•47 days ago

We compared voice actors and a group of non-actors matched in musical training and assessed their neural encoding of pitch 🧠 , as well as their prosody 💬, music 🎵, and sound perception 🔉. 🧵3/6

audioneurolab.bsky.social•47 days ago

We found that the consistency of neural sound encoding, prosody perception, and musical phrase perception are enhanced in voice actors, suggesting that a range of neural and behavioural auditory processing enhancements can result from training which lacks fine perceptual precision. 🧵4/6

audioneurolab.bsky.social•47 days ago

However, voice actors didn’t show advantage in fine sound discrimination, which was instead linked to musical experience, suggesting that low-level auditory processing can only be enhanced by demanding perceptual training. 🧵5/6

audioneurolab.bsky.social•47 days ago

These findings suggest that training which taxes attention, memory, and production but is not perceptually taxing may be a way to boost neural encoding of sound and auditory pattern detection in individuals with poor auditory skills. 🧵6/6

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