Although the evidence is still limited, a growing body of research suggests music may have beneficial effects for diseases such as Parkinson’s.
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The results for both bilateral cochlear implant (BiCI) (1) and normal-hearing (NH) listeners (2) show improvements in interaural time-delay (ITD) sensitivity when introducing irregularities in pulse timing. Following our hypothesis based on ref. 2, we called this effect “recovery from binaural adaptation” (RBA) even though we did not provide any explanation underlying …
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