Abstract
To evaluate the temporal processing of popular singers who do or do not play a musical instrument. The study population comprised 30 popular band singers. Of them, 15 play a musical instrument (G1) and 15 do them do not play a musical instrument (G2). All of them were submitted to basic audiological evaluation and temporal processing tests: test of frequency standard (TFS) and gaps in noise (GIN) detection. Significant differences were observed in performance in the comparison between the groups with regard to the temporal acuity threshold and percentage of correct responses in the GIN, as well as the performance in the TFS. The results of the group of singers who play a musical instrument were found to be better than those of the group that only sings. Popular singers that play musical instruments have a better performance in resolution and temporal ordering auditory skills than singers who do not play an instrument.
Highlights
Many neurophysiological and cognitive mechanisms and processes are needed for a perfect decoding, perception, recognition, and interpretation of the audio signal
Central auditory processing (CAP) is the domain from which the central nervous system uses auditory information[2] and includes auditory mechanisms that underlie the abilities of sound location and lateralization, auditory discrimination, recognition of auditory patterns, temporal aspects of hearing, including temporal integration, temporal resolution, temporal ordering, temporal masking, auditory performance with competing acoustic signals, and auditory performance with degraded acoustic signals[1,3]
Temporal processing refers to the processing of acoustic stimuli over time, necessary for the ability to understand speech in quiet and noisy environments, as well as speech stimuli and other background sounds that vary over time
Summary
Many neurophysiological and cognitive mechanisms and processes are needed for a perfect decoding, perception, recognition, and interpretation of the audio signal. Central auditory processing (CAP) is the domain from which the central nervous system uses auditory information[2] and includes auditory mechanisms that underlie the abilities of sound location and lateralization, auditory discrimination, recognition of auditory patterns, temporal aspects of hearing, including temporal integration, temporal resolution, temporal ordering, temporal masking, auditory performance with competing acoustic signals, and auditory performance with degraded acoustic signals[1,3]. Temporal processing refers to the processing of acoustic stimuli over time, necessary for the ability to understand speech in quiet and noisy environments, as well as speech stimuli and other background sounds that vary over time It can be considered as the basis for auditory processing, since many characteristics of auditory information are somehow influenced by time[4]
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