Neuroplastic Effects of Music Expertise on Speech-Language Processing

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16 - Neuroplastic Effects of Music Expertise on Speech-Language Processing

from Part V - Brain, Language, and Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2025

Gavin M. Bidelman ,

Jane A. Brown ,

Rose Rizzi and

Jessica MacLean

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Edna Andrews and

Swathi Kiran

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Edna Andrews: Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
Swathi Kiran: Affiliation:
Boston University

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Music is among the most important factors of the human experience. It draws on core perceptual-cognitive functions including those most relevant to speech-language processing. Consequently, musicians have been a model for understanding neuroplasticity and its far-reaching transfer effects to perception, action, cognition, and linguistic brain functions. This chapter provides an overview of these perceptual-cognitive benefits that music exerts on the brain with specific reference to spillover effects it has on speech and language functions. We highlight cross-sectional and longitudinal findings on music’s impact on the linguistic brain ranging from psychophysical benefits to enhancements of higher-order cognition. We also emphasize commonalities and distinctions in brain plasticity afforded by experience in the speech and music domains, drawing special attention to cross-domain transfer effects (or lack thereof) in how musical training influences linguistic processing and vice versa.

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