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A new study from Northwestern University shows that age-related delays in neural timing are actually avoidable, which is aided with musical training throughout life. The study claims to be the first every to provided biological evidence that lifelong music participation can have an effect on aging. Researchers in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory discovered that older musicians had a distinct neural timing advantage over non-musician counterparts when they measured brain responses to various speech sounds.

The automatic neural responses to speech sounds delivered to 87 normal-hearing, native English-speaking adults were measured as they watched a captioned video.

For more information on the study, check out this article at Medical Xpress.