Executive Function, Visual Attention and the Cocktail Party Problem in Musicians and Non-Musicians

The goal of this study was to investigate how cognitive factors influence performance in a multi-talker, “cocktail-party” like environment in musicians and non-musicians. This was achieved by relating performance in a spatial hearing task to cognitive processing abilities assessed using measures of...

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Main Authors: Clayton, Kameron K., Swaminathan, Jayaganesh, Yazdanbakhsh, Arash, Zuk, Jennifer, Patel, Aniruddh D., Kidd, Gerald
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4934907/