In a world full of competing sounds, we often have to filter out a lot of noise to hear what’s most important. This critical skill may come more easily for people with musical training, according to scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, who used brain imaging to follow what happens when people try to focus their attention on certain sounds.When Cassia Low Manting, a recent MIT postdoc working in the labs of MIT Professor and McGovern Institute PI John Gabrieli and former McGovern Institute PI Dimitrios Pantazis, asked…
