The sound of music: Differentiating musicians using a fast, musical multi-feature mismatch negativity paradigm

► The characteristics of the style/genre of music played by musicians influence their perceptual skills and the brain processing of sound features embedded in a musical context. ► Jazz musicians had stronger MMNs to deviants in a musical context than non-musicians, classical musicians and rock musicians. ► This was linked to better performance on behavioral listening tests.