“…On top of enhanced processing pertaining to pitch, musicians are found to be more sensitive to timbre than non-musicians (Chartrand and Belin, 2006), an acoustic property assumed to contribute to voice quality and emotion in speech (Juslin and Laukka, 2003). Meanwhile, musicians are also reported to outperform non-musicians in other language tasks such as second language production and perception, pitch memory, verbal memory, and perhaps segmental processing (Bidelman et al, 2013;Chan et al, 1998;Slevc and Miyake, 2006;Marie et al, 2011; although see Delogu et al, 2010). In the current study, the talker identification task in each language condition involved five different talkers and was cognitively more complex than pitch perception.…”