Lifelong Musicians Experience Fewer Age-Related Hearing Problems Than Non-Musicians
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 10:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Does playing music lead to less age-related hearing problems or do people without hearing problems continue to play music?Hearing studies have shown that trained musicians have highly developed auditory abilities compared to non-musicians but a new study concludes hearing abilities in musicians and non-musicians differs, across the age spectrum from 18 to 91 years of age, and that musicians retain a keener ability to detect and discriminate acoustic information from the environment. read more