Kelly Whiteford

Thanks, @rbcavanaugh.bsky.social! This paper has been many years in the making. The open source part was a really important aspect to us. 😭❤️

Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception

big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope".

music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !