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Research shows musicians have better hearing

Survivors of traumatic brain injury commonly struggle with deficits of attention, sometimes manifested in "cocktail party syndrome" - the inability to discern the words of a conversational partner from other nearby talkers. A compensatory strategy sometimes employed is to fit them with sound-proof earplugs and teach them to "speech read" (formerly lip reading).

I am a musician and I am not sure that this makes up for years of ear splitting gig volumes. My wife certainly thinks I am deaf, but that might just be "selective listening "

They only communicate better in loud environments because they're the ones with the microphones.

Zing!

Many classically trained musicians can attest to having spent hours in practice rooms concentrating on sounds we produced while ignoring the cacophonies from adjoining rooms. We didn't have sound-proof cubicles when I was young, just renovated dormitories with little more than plaster board for walls. Two pianists wall-to-wall were especially fun.

I found that I studied for tests and completed assignments better in noisy places (food malls, busy lobbies, etc.). Quiet places just make me sleepy.

Unfortunately, I've always had a 75% hearing loss in one ear so I have to turn my good ear in the direction of the sound origin.

I wouldn't say that musicians have better hearing, they just might be more practiced at certain sound processing tasks.

I'm intimately familiar with cocktail party syndrome; to the point I usually avoid bars completely. 38% hearing loss that can't be mechanically augmented is mostly the reason. High noise environments require near total concentration on the speaker's voice and face to capture as much of their message as possible. Which means a single stream, ignoring all other side conversations. No multi-taskign communication for this fellow.

Dr_Zinj: You mention the near total concentration required to participate in a conversation under those conditions. I am 5-years post-TBI, and after cocktail parties I feel like I have just taken graduate record exams (and that's without alcohol).

My question - is this nurture or nature? Is it an acquired skill, or do people become better musicians because of having this innate skill?

Hi sjking2000--I asked the researcher this (nature v. nurture)
and she wrote, "Inherent genetic predisposition is always a
factor. However,the advantage for speech in noise perception in
musicians was positively correlated with the EXTENT of musical
experience. The more years musical training, the stronger the
effect - so there is an experience-dependent aspect to the
advantage."

That i m sure off..they have better sense of hearing hence make great music!!!

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