Researchers' Quotes

This article is covering the same information released recently that was covered in this post, but there are some quotes in it not in the other article. (Emphasis mine)

. . . "Musical experience improves abilities important in daily life," she said. "Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice," Kraus said. . . 

. . . "People's hearing systems are fine-tuned by the experiences they've had with sound throughout their lives. Music training is not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We've found that years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for language and emotion," Kraus said in prepared remarks. . . . 

 . . .  Kraus said "the very responses that are enhanced in musicians are deficient in clinical populations such as children with developmental dyslexia and autism.". . . 

. . . "Nouns and verbs are very different from tones and chords and harmony, but the parts of the brain that process them overlap," he said.