IF YOU struggle to follow the conversation at noisy parties, music lessons might help.
and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have previously shown that playing an instrument seems to enhance our ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation. Now her team has found differences in brain activity that they say make musicians better at picking out speech from background noise.
After establishing that , her team asked 16 lifelong musicians and 15 non-musicians to listen to speech in a quiet…
