1. Gaser C, Schlaug G. Brain structures differ between musicians and non-musicians. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2003;23(27):9240-5. ##
2. Schneider P, Scherg M, Dosch HG, Specht HJ, Gutschalk A, Rupp A. Morphology of Heschl's gyrus reflects enhanced activation in the auditory cortex of musicians. Nature neuroscience. 2002;5(7):688-94. ##
3. Zatorre RJ, Chen JL, Penhune VB. When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production. Nature reviews neuroscience. 2007;8(7):547-58. ##
4. Zatorre R. Music, the food of neuroscience? Nature. 2005;434(7031):312-5. ##
5. Pantev C, Oostenveld R, Engelien A, Ross B, Roberts LE, Hoke M. Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians. Nature. 1998;392(6678):811-4. ##
6. Hyde KL, Lerch J, Norton A, Forgeard M, Winner E, Evans AC, et al. Musical training shapes structural brain development. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2009;29(10):3019-25. ##
7. Moreno S, Marques C, Santos A, Santos M, Castro SL, Besson M. Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity. Cerebral Cortex. 2009;19(3):712-23. ##
8. Patel AD. Language, music, syntax and the brain. Nature neuroscience. 2003;6(7):674-81. ##
9. Forgeard M, Winner E, Norton A, Schlaug G. Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning. PloS one. 2008;3(10):e3566. ##
10. Parbery-Clark A, Skoe E, Lam C, Kraus N. Musician enhancement for speech-in-noise. Ear and hearing. 2009;30(6):653-61. ##
11. Hornickel J, Skoe E, Nicol T, Zecker S, Kraus N. Subcortical differentiation of stop consonants relates to reading and speech-in-noise perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2009;106(31):13022-7. ##
12. Tzounopoulos T, Kraus N. Learning to encode timing: mechanisms of plasticity in the auditory brainstem. Neuron. 2009;62(4):463-9. ##
13. Musacchia G, Sams M, Skoe E, Kraus N. Musicians have enhanced subcortical auditory and audiovisual processing of speech and music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2007;104(40):15894-8. ##
14. Kraus N, Chandrasekaran B. Music training for the development of auditory skills. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2010;11(8):599-605. ##
15. Wong PC, Skoe E, Russo NM, Dees T, Kraus N. Musical experience shapes human brainstem encoding of linguistic pitch patterns. Nature neuroscience. 2007;10(4):420-2. ##
16. Chandrasekaran B, Kraus N. The scalp‐recorded brainstem response to speech: Neural origins and plasticity. Psychophysiology. 2010;47(2):236-46. ##
17. Skoe E, Kraus N. Auditory brainstem response to complex sounds: a tutorial. Ear and hearing. 2010;31(3):302. ##
18. Suga N. Role of corticofugal feedback in hearing. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 2008;194(2):169-83. ##
19. Strait DL, Kraus N, Skoe E, Ashley R. Musical experience and neural efficiency–effects of training on subcortical processing of vocal expressions of emotion. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2009;29(3):661-8. ##
20. Bidelman GM, Gandour JT, Krishnan A. Cross-domain effects of music and language experience on the representation of pitch in the human auditory brainstem. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2011;23(2):425-34. ##
21. Parbery-Clark A, Skoe E, Kraus N. Musical experience limits the degradative effects of background noise on the neural processing of sound. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2009;29(45):14100-7. ##
22. Fujioka T, Trainor LJ, Ross B, Kakigi R, Pantev C. Musical training enhances automatic encoding of melodic contour and interval structure. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2004;16(6):1010-21. ##
23. Strait DL, Kraus N, Parbery-Clark A, Ashley R. Musical experience shapes top-down auditory mechanisms: evidence from masking and auditory attention performance. Hearing research. 2010;261(1):22-9. ##
24. Chan AS, Ho Y-C, Cheung M-C. Music training improves verbal memory. Nature. 1998;396(6707):128-.##
25. Nager W, Kohlmetz C, Altenmüller E, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Münte TF. The fate of sounds in conductors’ brains: an ERP study. Cognitive Brain Research. 2003;17(1):83-93. ##
26. Seppänen M, Brattico E, Tervaniemi M. Practice strategies of musicians modulate neural processing and the learning of sound-patterns. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2007;87(2):236-47. ##
27. Chandrasekaran B, Hornickel J, Skoe E, Nicol T, Kraus N. Context-dependent encoding in the human auditory brainstem relates to hearing speech in noise: implications for developmental dyslexia. Neuron. 2009;64(3):311-9. ##
28. Luo F, Wang Q, Kashani A, Yan J. Corticofugal modulation of initial sound processing in the brain. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2008;28(45):11615-21. ##
29. van Zuijen TL, Sussman E, Winkler I, Näätänen R, Tervaniemi M. Auditory organization of sound sequences by a temporal or numerical regularity—a mismatch negativity study comparing musicians and non-musicians. Cognitive Brain Research. 2005;23(2):270-6. ##
30. Koelsch S, Schröger E, Tervaniemi M. Superior pre‐attentive auditory processing in musicians. Neuroreport. 1999;10(6):1309-13. ##
31. Brashears SM, Morlet TG, Berlin CI, Hood LJ. Olivocochlear efferent suppression in classical musicians. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 2003;14(6):314-24. ##
32. Tallal P, Gaab N. Dynamic auditory processing, musical experience and language development. Trends in neurosciences. 2006;29(7):382-90. ##
33. Overy K. Dyslexia and music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2003;999(1):497-505. ##
34. Chandrasekaran B, Kraus N. Music, noise-exclusion, and learning. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2010;27(4):297-306. ##
35. Musacchia G, Strait D, Kraus N. Relationships between behavior, brainstem and cortical encoding of seen and heard speech in musicians and non-musicians. Hearing research. 2008;241(1):34-42. ##
36. Lee KM, Skoe E, Kraus N, Ashley R. Selective subcortical enhancement of musical intervals in musicians. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2009;29(18):5832-40. ##
37. Trainor LJ. Are there critical periods for musical development? Developmental psychobiology. 2005;46(3):262-78. ##
38. Watanabe D, Savion-Lemieux T, Penhune VB. The effect of early musical training on adult motor performance: evidence for a sensitive period in motor learning. Experimental Brain Research. 2007;176(2):332-40. ##
39. Banai K, Hornickel J, Skoe E, Nicol T, Zecker S, Kraus N. Reading and subcortical auditory function. Cerebral cortex. 2009;19(11):2699-707.##