Isabelle Arseneau-Bruneau

McGill University | McGill · Montreal Neurological Institute

This study investigates the interactions between musicianship and two auditory cognitive mechanisms: auditory working memory (AWM) and stream segregation. The primary hypothesis is that AWM mediates the relationship between musical training and enhanced stream segregation capabilities. Two groups of listeners were tested, the first to establish the...

There is much debate about the existence and function of neural oscillatory mechanisms in the auditory system. The frequency- following response (FFR) is an index of neural periodicity encoding that can provide a vehicle to study entrainment in frequency ranges relevant to speech and music processing. Criteria for entrainment include the presence o...

There is much debate about the existence and function of neural oscillatory entrainment mechanisms in the auditory system. The frequency-following response (FFR) is an index of neural periodicity encoding that can provide a vehicle to study entrainment in frequency ranges relevant to speech and music processing. Criteria for entrainment include the...

The ability to segregate target sounds in noisy backgrounds is relevant both to neuroscience and to clinical applications. Recent research suggests that hearing-in-noise (HIN) problems are solved using combinations of sub-skills that are applied according to task demand and information availability. While evidence is accumulating for a musician adv...

Research on cognition, attention and practice illustrates how important directing learners’ attention can be in the process of motor skill development. Effects of focus of attention (FOA) on human performance have been documented behaviorally and physiologically for the past 15 years (for a review, see Wulf, 2013; for EMG, see Lohse, Sherwood & Hea...