Musicians hear the world differently than non-musicians. According to a recent study, musicians aren’t just highly skilled at isolating the sounds of individual instruments in a piece of music, but are also better than non-musicians at isolating individual vocal streams when multiple people talk over each other.
This study on overlapping speech perception amongst musicians and non-musicians was conducted by researchers in the Netherlands and was recently published a study in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. As Scientific American explains, for the study, researchers played audio recordings of one speaker talking over another for 18 musicians and 20 non-musicians, and asked them to repeat as many words as possible in one speaker’s sentence.
via Mental Floss
